Infectious Disease Case Study: Congenital Syphilis
Presenting complaints
A 2 month old infant is brought to the pediatric clinic with complaints of fever and diarrhea since 1 week. Fever was mild and used to come down with antipyretics, diarrhoea was also mild with about 3-4 loose watery stools per day. The mother gave history of peeling of skin of palms and soles which started about 10 days back and had progressed since then. She had also observed bilateral purulent eye discharge. The child was on paracetamol, oral rehydration solution and probiotics. There was no history of any other illness or a history of any other drug ingestion. The child was a full term normal vaginal delivery with birth weight of 2.3 kg. Till date his milestones were normal and immunization was up-to-date.