Bullous pemphigoid in infancy: a case report

Bullous pemphigoid occurs rarely in children. Bean and Jordan1 found only eight cases reported as of 1974 and the youngest of these patients was 2 years of age. Presented here is the case of a 3½-month-old infant who developed this disease. CASE REPORT A 3½-month-old boy developed a progressively spreading bullous eruption (Fig. 1 and 2). Within a week the hands and feet were covered with large, tense bullae lying on a base of erythema, and scattered vesicles appeared on the back of the neck, the trunk, and the rims of the ears. There were no oral lesions. The child was fussy and irritable but had no fever.