Seborrhoeic Dermatitis and Cradle Cap – Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Seborrhoeic dermatitis and cradle cap in 18 board-style clinical cases with worked explanations. Each case gives you a clinical vignette, four options, the correct answer, and an explanation of why each of the other three is wrong, with the guideline or textbook it follows named on the answer.

Board-style teaching questions for paediatricians and trainees preparing for paediatric board, MRCPCH and licensing examinations. Written from published guidelines and standard paediatric textbooks, with the source named on every answer.

The 18 cases, in order

1. Yellow crust on the crown
2. Telling the two apart
3. Down in the folds
4. Spots beyond the edge
5. Where else to look
6. What lives on greasy skin
7. The child who is too old
8. Where it sits in teenagers
9. Past the hairline
10. The kindest way
11. Picking it off
12. Treating the nappy area
13. The teenager’s scalp
14. Gritty eyes in the morning
15. Keeping it away
16. Suddenly severe
17. Nothing they did
18. Thick and stuck fast

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: A fungal infection of the scalp and brows, Whether the baby is itchy and unsettled, The rash is limited to the buttocks only, The barrier cream has caused an allergy, The neck folds, the armpits and behind the ears, A bacterium that has invaded the skin, The scale sits on the scalp rather than the face, Elbows, knees and the back of the scalp, That a second scaling disease is present, Scrub harder with a flannel each evening, To continue, since the crusts come away, A very potent steroid ointment twice a day, An antifungal shampoo used twice weekly, Antibiotic drops instilled four times daily.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• Greasy yellow scale on a contented baby’s scalp.
• The comfortable baby has seborrhoeic dermatitis.
• Into the creases is seborrhoeic; sparing them is irritant.
• Outlying spots past a scalloped edge: yeast has joined in.
• It lives in the folds: neck, armpits and behind the ears.
• A normal skin yeast feeding on oil drives the rash.

Work through the deck once for recognition, then again a week later to test yourself — each question gives the answer and explains why every other option fails.

More from this system: all dermatology case decks · pediatric reference values.