A critically ill infant with multi-organ dysfunction due to eczema

Hong Kong Medical Journal ©2022 Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Eczema is the most prevalent childhood atopic illness routinely encountered by health professionals providing care to children.1 Some infants become critically ill and present to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with this seemingly trivial condition.2 This anonymised (no clinical and laboratory data are presented) case of severe eczema and multi-organ dysfunction illustrates the extent of PICTORIAL MEDICINE