Rash during pregnancy is not uncommon, ranging from a relatively harmless heat rash to potentially life-threatening conditions like impetigo herpetiformis. These rashes may develop due to changes in ...
There is a lot of interaction between pregnancy and skin changes. You may feel the best you've ever felt at one point, only to feel as though something is wrong with your skin (especially itchiness).
Summer Bostock, a 29-year-old from Queensland, Australia, experienced pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP), also known as polymorphic eruption of pregnancy, or PEP, when she ...
Pemphigoid gestationis is a rare autoimmune skin condition that may develop during pregnancy. It can cause an itchy rash and blisters. However, treatments such as corticosteroids can help. Pemphigoid ...
A pregnant person showing signs of rubella or suspected rubella exposure, such as a facial rash or low grade fever, must contact a doctor immediately. They will receive a rubella test, and doctors can ...
An itchy belly or belly button during pregnancy can result from skin stretching, dry skin, or other health conditions like cholestasis. But as many formerly pregnant people can tell you, itchiness, or ...