Malignant acrodynia

Abstract

In eastern France, where acrodynia is common, the authors observed malignant forms of the disease with fatal outcome. They cite 4 cases of acrodynia in young children with a general characteristic picture of the course of the disease - The disease in all these cases began after an infection (influenza, measles, pneumonia) and proceeded initially with the usual symptoms of acrodynia: weakness, lack of appetite, insomnia, irritability, redness and swelling of the extremities, profuse sweating, peeling of the skin, traces of scratching on the body, red or blue and cold nose, hypotonia of the muscles.