It is to be differentiated from eczema.
What is the prognosis?
For the immediate attack, favorable, recovery taking place in several weeks or a few months. Recurrences at irregular intervals are not uncommon.
What is the treatment of pompholyx?
The general health is to be looked after, and the patient placed under good hygienic conditions. Remedies of a tonic nature, directed especially toward improving the state of the nervous system, are to be prescribed. Locally, soothing and anodyne applications, such as lead-water and laudanum, boric-acid lotion, oxide-of-zinc, boric-acid and diachylon ointments, are most suitable; or the parts may be enveloped with the following:—
℞ Pulv. ac. salicylici, ............................ gr. x
Pulv. ac. borici,
Pulv. amyli, ..................āā................. ʒij
Petrolati, ....................................... ʒiv. M.
In fact, the external treatment is similar to that employed in acute eczema.
Herpes Simplex.
(Synonym: Fever Blisters.)
What is herpes simplex?