INFANTILE ACROPUSTULOSIS IN 6 IMMIGRANT CHILDREN

Infantile acropustulosis is a recurrent, pruriginous, vesiculopustular eruption of the palms and soles first described in 1979. We report si x cases of infantile acropustulosis in recently emigrated children tre ated for scabies. Clinical follow-up was obtained by questionnaire add ressed to patients' families and general practitioners, Our study sugg ests infantile acropustulosis is frequent in immigrant infants and cou ld be a non-specific hypersensitivity reaction to Sarcoptes scabiei.