Collodion Baby - a Case Report

Abstract

Colloidon baby describes a highly characteristic clinical entity in newborns encased in a yellowish translucent membrane resembling collodion. In most cases the condition either precedes the development of one of a variety of ichthyoses, the commonest of which are lamellar ichthyosis and non-bullous ichthyosiform erythroderma, or occasionally represents an initial phase of other ichthyoses such as ichthyosis vulgaris. In at least 10% of all cases of collodion baby, the condition is followed by a mild ichthyosis of lamellar type, so mild as to be considered more or less normal, so-called self-healing collodion baby or 'lamellar ichthyosis of the newborn'. In this report we present a rare case of collodion baby in whom, after collodion membrane peeled-off, the skin retained normal appearance.

Collodion newborn with dehydration fever: A rare case report

“…These babies are also at increased risk of developing conductive hearing loss [1,8]. A case of a baby with ichthyosis who was diagnosed as having a conductive hearing loss on the 83 rd day of life has been reported; the problem persisted for the whole duration of the 2-year follow-up [13].…”

“…he term collodion was first used by Hallopeau and Watelet in 1892 which is a Greek word meaning Glutinous (such as glue and sticky) [1]. Ichthyosis is a rare clinical condition with an overall incidence of 1: 300,000 births [2] with around 270 cases reported till today with similar incidence in males and females [3].…”

Collodion baby treated at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania: a case report

“…These babies are at increased risk of developing conductive hearing loss [1, 7, 11]. A case of a baby with ichthyosis who was diagnosed as having conductive hearing loss on 83rd day of life has been reported; the problem persisted for the whole duration of the 2-year follow-up [15].…”

“…Collodion baby (CB) is the term first used in 1884 by Hallopeau and Watelet [1–3] to describe a newborn covered with a translucent, parchment paper-like skin sheet known as a collodion [1, 4]. It is not a disease entity but it describes a phenotype of a newborn who may later develop one of a spectrum of disorders including autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis, congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma, lamellar ichthyosis, and harlequin ichthyosis, or another form like Gaucher’s disease or self-healing CB [1, 2, 5]. The collodion membrane detaches in 2 to 4 weeks, usually revealing a permanent ichthyosis phenotype [6].…”