Background: Although the majority of rashes in the diaper area are caused by irritation from urine and feces,\nirritant diaper dermatitis; IDD, there are some less common but potentially serious cutaneous eruptions associated\nwith systemic diseases that should not be discounted.\nMethods: This prospective descriptive study aimed to explore variation in cutaneous disease in the diaper area. It\nwas conducted as a prospective descriptive study between October 2016 and November 2019 in the pediatric\ndepartment of a tertiary-level hospital.\nResults: Three hundred consecutive patients with rashes in the diaper area were enrolled. The most common\ndiagnosed was IDD (125 cases; 41.7%), followed by rashes exacerbated by the diaper (101 cases; 33.67%) and nondiaper-\nrelated rashes (74 cases; 24.67%).\nConclusions: Our finding suggests that when diagnosing rashes that occur in the diaper area, general pediatricians\nshould consider, in addition to IDD, the possibility of less-common conditions. The simultaneous presence of cutaneous\nlesions at other sites was linked to diagnoses of systemic diseases other than IDD, ...................
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