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I would like to commend Drs Stratman and Melski¹ for their recent case report of child abuse secondary to possible scalding in the Critical Situations section of the ARCHIVES. As dermatologists we should always be on the lookout for signs of abuse or neglect in our smallest, most vulnerable patients.

To my eye, the photograph in Figure 1 does not completely conform to the illustrations depicting classic scalding injuries depicted in Figure 2. I would like to propose an additional possible cause for this child's distinctive clinical presentation. Last year, a multicenter group of pediatricians reported 4 cases of bullous laxative-induced dermatitis of the diaper area in young children who ingested large amounts of chocolate-flavored laxative (Ex-lax; Novartis, Summit, NJ).² Although such an overdose may be accidental, in some cases it may also be a sign of neglect. The perianal location of the "pseudoscald" chemical burn and the well-circumscribed, angulated . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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