Monday, January 7, 2008

VizD Challenge Week of 1/7/08


A 5-year-old boy presents to your ED with 2-days of rectal itching




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Questions:
1. What is the diagnosis?
2. What is the treatment for this condition?






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8 comments:

Graham said...

1) Pinworms!
2) mebendazole (Vermox) or Pin-X (pyrantel pamoate)!

Anonymous said...

vermicularis enterobius - that boy got the worms!

beadnik said...

pinworms! ack

WongML said...

Pin worms (Threadworms).

HicksterAZ said...

1. Enterobius vermicularis (pinworms)

Unknown said...

I'll go with Enterobius vermicularis, or good old pinworm. Treat OTC with Pin-X twice, a couple of weeks apart, and heck, burn the house down and start again.

Kristof said...

Oxyuriasis

Pro said...

1. Diagnosis: Anal haemolytic streptococcus infection.

2. Treatment, p.o. Phenoxypenicillin, if allergic erytromycin (where I go to medschool we can use those antibiotic, but in your case it depends upon your local resistance pattern for relevant bacteria) and chloridehexdine soap.