Skin stuff

The body's largest organ

Dermatitis herpetiformis

• blistering and very itchy
• associated with coeliac disease
• elbows, knees and bum and scalp
• doesn't respond to steroids
• Rx dapsone

Scabies

• from a mite
• tends to affect to distal limbs
• not usually above the neck

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