Talk:Erythema toxicum neonatorum

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 26 October 2020 and 20 November 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): FutureMD-SR.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 20:50, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Need an image!

We the Vanderbilt WikiMed class have had a hard time locating any open source images of this rash. If you happen to have one, could you please post it? A visual would be extremely helpful for this page.

I find the image used to be disturbing. It is not that the baby is diapered in what appears to be a rag (very practical), since conditions are different the world over, but that adult hand that is holding up the baby's shirt appears to be extremely hypoxic and from the coloring, at death's door. Is that person okay? Alarmed, Wordreader (talk) 18:16, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology

What's the etymology of this term? I'm curious based on the fact that it has the word "toxic" in it, but it's apparently quite benign... -Bobsagat (talk) 02:26, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Our pediatrician just told us this about it: when they named it, they didn't know it was benign, so gave it the name of "redness toxin". The name stuck, even though our understanding has evolved. --ChrisRuvolo (t)

Proposed merge

A merge was proposed between this page and Neonatal acne. However, per [1] these appear to be separate conditions, and I have removed the merge tags accordingly. LT910001 (talk) 23:16, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Page Revisions

Hello Wikipedians! I will be working to improve this page as part of a class project over the next few weeks. I would appreciate any feedback you have for me. Here is my general workplan.

  • I will be updating references for all sections. Some links are currently unreachable, and some sections are lacking citations completely.
  • I will revise the introduction to make it more easily readable
  • I will add more detail to the Presentation section
  • The causes of erythema toxicum neonatorum are still unknown. The current Cause section is largely speculative and lacks references. I will revise the Cause section to more accurately reflect this uncertainty while covering what is known about the disease at this point.
  • I am planning to reorganize the Diagnosis section to make it easier to read while adding some detail about differential diagnoses
  • I am planning to add an Epidemiology section
  • I will revise the entire entry to ensure a general audience can easily understand it
  • I will embed links to other Wiki pages, including but not limited to: rash, evanescent (dermatology), and Wright stain
  • I am hoping to find an image that meets CC requirements

FutureMD-SR (talk) 21:55, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@FutureMD-SR = "I will revise the entire entry to ensure a general audience can easily understand it"
Hooray for you! One of my biggest pet peeves with Wikipedia is the jargon-heavy and arcanist approach so many medical, technical, and scientific articles use. What is a curious, innocent lay person to do? Fall down rabbit holes looking up the meaning of every other word? I really wish for so many of these types of articles to be more user-friendly.
By the way, I expanded the "Diagnosis" section title to include "and Differential Diagnosis".
Thank you, Wordreader (talk) 18:28, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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