Case Series of Acute Generalized Exanthematous Pustulosis (AGEP) in Children at Sampran Hospital, Nakhon Pathom Province

Abstract

     Three boys were presented as acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) at Sampran Hospital, Nakhon Pathom Province. They were 4, 5 and 9 years old. The cause of AGEP was drug allergy in all cases (2 cases from amoxicillin and ceftriaxone and 1 case from cetirizine). The rashes had characteristic abrupted onset, generalized exanthematous rashes with nonfollicular sterile pustules. All patients had the leukocytosis with eosinophilia and two patients had hepatitis. After discontinuing the drugs that caused AGEP, the rashes were disappeared in all patients without treatment by steroid.