:Dermatoses of pregnancy

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Dermatoses of pregnancy are the inflammatory skin diseases that are specific to women while they are pregnant.{{cite journal |vauthors=Tunzi M, Gray GR |title=Common skin conditions during pregnancy |journal=Am Fam Physician |volume=75 |issue=2 |pages=211–8 |date=January 2007 |pmid=17263216 |url=http://www.aafp.org/afp/20070115/211.html |access-date=2009-07-09 |archive-date=2008-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828164334/http://www.aafp.org/afp/20070115/211.html |url-status=dead }} While some use the term 'polymorphic eruption of pregnancy' to cover these,James, William; Berger, Timothy; Elston, Dirk (2005). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology. (10th ed.). Saunders. Page 470-471. {{ISBN|0-7216-2921-0}}. this term is a synonym used in the UK for Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy,{{cite journal |vauthors=Matz H, Orion E, Wolf R |title=Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy: polymorphic eruption of pregnancy (PUPPP) |journal=Clin Dermatol |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=105–8 |date=Mar–Apr 2006 |pmid=16487883 |doi=10.1016/j.clindermatol.2005.10.010}} which is the commonest of these skin conditions.

Skin diseases seen during pregnancy include:{{cite journal |vauthors=Holmes RC, Black MM |title=The specific dermatoses of pregnancy |journal=J. Am. Acad. Dermatol. |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=405–12 |date=March 1983 |pmid=6833540 |doi= 10.1016/S0190-9622(83)70046-0}}{{cite journal |author=Callen JP |title=Pregnancy's effects on the skin. Common and uncommon changes |journal=Postgrad Med |volume=75 |issue=8 |pages=138–45 |date=June 1984 |pmid=6728733 }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Sodhi VK, Sausker WF |title=Dermatoses of pregnancy |journal=Am Fam Physician |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=131–8 |date=January 1988 |pmid=3276095 }}

class="wikitable" !Frequency{{cite journal |vauthors=Ambros-Rudolph CM, Müllegger RR, Vaughan-Jones SA, Kerl H, Black MM |title=The specific dermatoses of pregnancy revisited and reclassified: results of a retrospective two-center study on 505 pregnant patients |journal=J. Am. Acad. Dermatol. |volume=54 |issue=3 |pages=395–404 |date=March 2006 |pmid=16488288 |doi=10.1016/j.jaad.2005.12.012 }}	Onset in pregnancy	Condition
49.7%	Early	Eczema in pregnancy
21.6%	Late	Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy
4.25% Saudi Arabia{{cite journal |author=Yap FBB |title=Impetigo herpetiformis: A case report and review of literature |journal=Egyptian Dermatology Online Journal |issue=4 |volume=1 |date=4 June 2008 |url=http://www.edoj.org.eg/vol004/0401/004/01.htm |access-date=2009-07-09 |issn=1687-3831}}	Late	Impetigo herpetiformis
4.2%	Late	Gestational pemphigoid also termed pemphigoid gestationis, and previously called herpes gestationis
3%	Late	Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy may also be included in this list.
0.8%	Early	Prurigo gestationis
0.2%	Early	Pruritic folliculitis of pregnancy
	Late	Spangler's Papular dermatitis of pregnancy
		Linear IgM dermatosis of pregnancy