An eight-year-old boy attended the Ophthalmology Department complaining of vesicular lesions caused by pruriginous vesicles improvement on the right but not topical herpes zoster, diagnosed with herpes zoster
Because of this, the antiviral agent is substantiated due to its oral presentation, without showing improvement in six days. Then, a corticosteroid withdrawal is indicated for culture and a skin lesion is indicated prior to topical treatment with beta-blockers.
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Three weeks later, the patient underwent a review, which showed a slight decrease in pruritus, with stagnation of previous lesions, maintaining a large scaling and erythematous keratosis with poorly defined base.
Culture is positive for Candida krusei, so previous therapies are withdrawn, recommending oral griseofulvin in two daily doses with disappearance of fat meals and suspending an improvement of cutaneous signs, producing 14 days.
