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ReviewBiomedicines2021

Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Itching in Children and Adolescents.

Seok-Young Kang, Ji-Young Um, Bo-Young Chung, Jin-Cheol Kim, Chun-Wook Park, Hye-One Kim

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Review in Biomedicines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Seok-Young KangDepartment of Dermatology, Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University, Seoul KS013, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-6532-2244
Ji-Young UmDepartment of Dermatology, Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University, Seoul KS013, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-2044-199X
Bo-Young ChungDepartment of Dermatology, Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University, Seoul KS013, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-2795-0140
Jin-Cheol KimDepartment of Dermatology, Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University, Seoul KS013, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-1523-6951
Chun-Wook ParkDepartment of Dermatology, Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University, Seoul KS013, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-4512-8668
Hye-One KimDepartment of Dermatology, Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University, Seoul KS013, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-5846-0008

Funding

Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020-ER6714-00National Research Foundation of Korea 2017R1A2B4006252National Research Foundation of Korea 2018R1C1B6007998
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Itching is prevalent in children with skin disorders and associated with effects on their mood, quality of life, and social functioning. Surprisingly, there are no data on childhood prevalence of pruritus in the general population. The aim of this article is to explore the epidemiology, clinical manifestation, and treatment for itch (pruritus) in the pediatric population (from infancy to adolescence), and to be helpful to primary care physicians who assess and diagnose pediatric patients with itching. In this study, we searched for specific keywords using PubMed and MEDLINE (Ovid) and, then, refined the retrieved searches for each cause and treatment. As a result of reviewing the literature, atopic dermatitis was shown to be the most common cause of itching, especially during infancy and through preschool. Not only skin disorders but also systemic diseases, drugs, and postburn states can predispose an individual to itching in childhood. There are traditional and newly developed treatment modalities for itching in pediatric patients. However, because the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of childhood are different from those of adults, the medications for itching have to be applied carefully for these age groups. There are many areas to be elucidated regarding the prevalence and objective assessment of pruritus in pediatric patients. Moreover, the safety profiles of medications in the pediatric population need to be better understood. Further studies to investigate itching in childhood are warranted.

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adolescentschildrendifferential diagnosisitchingpruritustreatment of itching

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PMID34440123
PMCPMC8389554

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