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Twenty-five year-old female with sudden onset itchy skin eruption over her upper back and chest three weeks after starting a ketogenic diet
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Twenty-five year-old female with sudden onset itchy skin eruption over her upper back and chest three weeks after starting a ketogenic diet

Salim Alkeraye, Abdullah AlMuqrin, Sami Mufleh AlQahtani, Mohammed AlSwayyed and Abdulrahman Alhuzimi
Annals of Saudi medicine, Vol.39(6), pp.444-445
01/12/2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5144/0256-4947.2019.444
PMCID: PMC6894454
PMID: 31804142

Abstract

Adult Back Diet, Ketogenic - adverse effects Female Humans Hyperpigmentation - etiology Hyperpigmentation - pathology Prurigo - etiology Prurigo - pathology Skin - pathology Thorax
Prurigo pigmentosa is a rare pruritic inflammatory dermatosis with a unique staged clinicopathological presentation. It was first reported by Nagashima in 1971, and recently, more cases have been reported We introduce a case of a young Saudi female who developed biopsy proved prurigo pigmentosa after she followed strict ketogenic diet. Her condition resolved after she resumed a regular diet.
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