Cultural practices affecting the skin of children

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 423-431

  Ravanfar, Parisa ^a   Dinulos, James G ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

abuse; cultural practice; cutaneous; ethnic; remedies; skin; traditional

Indexed keywords

BERGAMOT OIL; BERGAPTEN; CAMPHOR; CAPSAICIN; CRYSTAL VIOLET; HENNA; PHENYLENEDIAMINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TOOTHPASTE;

ACNE; ACNE KELOIDALIS NUCHAE; ACUPUNCTURE; ALOE VERA; ALOPECIA; APNEA; BERLOQUE DERMATITIS; BLISTER; CHILD ABUSE; CHINESE MEDICINE; COMA; CONFUSION; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DAVENER DERMATOSIS; DERMATITIS; DESQUAMATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAPER DERMATITIS; DRUG INTOXICATION; ECCHYMOSIS; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEATING; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPERREFLEXIA; IMMIGRANT; INDONESIA; MOXIBUSTION; MYCOSIS; NEWBORN TETANUS; PHOTODERMATOSIS; PHOTOTOXICITY; PHYSICIAN; POMADE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RASH; REVIEW; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN TOXICITY; THRUSH; TRACTION ALOPECIA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM; CHILD; CULTURAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MIGRANT; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY;

CHILD; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; SKIN DISEASES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955228069     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e32833bc352     Document Type: Review

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