Abstract

Background: Skin diseases are one of the leading causes of morbidity in children. Lack of personal hygiene, unhygienic conditions, overcrowding, inadequate treatment, sharing of towels/combs result in a various forms of infective dermatoses like scabies, pediculosis, pyoderma, fungal, viral infection and leprosy etc. Purpose: Among that most common skin diseases are pyoderma & scabies. Studies have shown prevalence of Pyoderma in Indian Children ranging from 2.1% to 17.1%.If treatment is delayed; pyoderma is likely to worsen, develop complications or transmit to others. Delay in seeking treatment depends on mother’s perception towards pyoderma. However, knowledge about how and when mothers seek treatment for pyoderma remains acutely incomplete in our country. Material and Method: Mothers & their children up to 14 years of age attending UHC fulfilling inclusion/ exclusion criterion taken. Result: Based on study result it is observed that, among the infective dermatoses the commonest were secondarily infected scabies and pyoderma. Daily bath, insect bite, sharing cloths, frequent hair washing, total number of lesion when compared with duration of contact to hospital was found to be statistically significant. Duration of contact to hospital, playing in unhygienic condition, sharing towels, comb, daily bath when compared with course of disease found to be statistically significant. Conclusion: Unhygienic practices can lead to complication. Delay in health seeking behavior should be changed to health care seeking behavior. Proper understanding of health seeking behavior could reduce delay to diagnosis, improve treatment compliance and improve health promotion strategies in a variety of contexts. Visits to more traditional healers and unofficial medical channels, folk medicine or providers, should be prevented, with the emphasis on encouraging people to opt first for the official channels. Create ways to build bridges to enable individual preferences to be incorporated into a more responsive health care system through formal training programs

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