Talk:Pityriasis rosea

message: This article was categorized based on scheme outlined at WP:DERM:CAT. kilbad (talk) 01:58, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article categorization 

message: The picture, stolen from one of the linked websites, is of the 'herald patch' of pityriasis rosea, not some random 'oval rash' of pityriasis rosea.  The caption should not have been reworded, because the herald patch differs from the rest of the rash, preceding it by few days and being much larger than the other spots.
Pityriasis rosea is now thought to be caused by human herpes virus 8 - was published in the NEJM a few years ago.
67.170.212.250 06:57, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  HHV8, picture 

message: 70.171.115.227 mistakenly posted this discussion to the article itself, I'm moving it: "Does not speak to the question, is this the best we can do? I'm a med student studying for the USMLE. They are not contagious. "Not contagious in the classic sense" means that whatever toxic insult gave the first person the rash could theoretically do it to someone else, but there is no infectious process. Funny that in all of my studying, "contagious" hardly comes up. It is more of a layman's term. Since we usually know the pathogen at work, or whether there is one at all, we talk more of virulence. Contagious is beside the point."
I guess it's beside the point unless you are worried about catching it or unless you have it and don't want to give it to anyone. In other words it's far from beside the point. You are saying that the condition comes about because of a "toxic insult" but I don't and I'm sure many other Wikipedia readers don't understand what you mean. If you want to explain and source this, that would be welcome. The other stuff should stay for now because contagiousness is still enough of a question mark that a med student posting anonymously doesn't resolve it. DanielM (talk) 12:23, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: What we mean by contagious is can you get it from somebody else? Well, as we think it has an infectious origin presumably from a theoretical standpoint the answer has to be yes. But I must have seen over 30 cases in the last 10 years and never one where there was another known sufferer in the vicinity or the family. So, in practice it is not contagious. Bart (talk) 08:14, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Bart, I looked at your editor page and saw that you are fairly new to Wikipedia. Although this is a discussion that is interesting to me, we must be mindful to focus on the editing process. I will venture to say that I am aware of a case where a person caught it three weeks to two months after his co-worker did. The two worked out with weights together as well. Now, as to the editing process, we must reference any text that is put in the Wikipedia article regarding conatgiousness. That is why I authored the admittedly mediocre contagiousness part in the article as I did; it was the best I could find. Cool to have you participating, and welcome to Wikipedia. DanielM (talk) 23:19, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Contagiousness and Virulence

message: My wife is from S. Alabama, and we now live outside Chicago. Last year she developed Pityriasis rosea. This is what the doctor said. They weren't sure the exact variety. I believe she got a second opinion too. She suffered all winter. She tried a perscription and an Indian (Asia) remedy. Nothing worked. Well this year the disease came back. We were treating it with good quality lotion and last years perscription topical ointment with the pain was too much. It had no effect. My wife has ALWAYS complained about the dry air. I grew up here so I don't know anything else. Last year the pityriasis disappeared in April, spring, moist air. Well on MLK Day I went out and bought a 30 dollar humidifier.
It has been running the last two days. ALL HER PITYRIASIS IS GONE. He she had three spots and 48 hrs later they are gone. Try this I hope it helps. It saved me the codt of moving to S. AL.Good Luck
99.38.32.234 (talk) 01:25, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This is very unlikely to have been pityriasis as the duration is too long and recurrences never happen as far as I'm aware. Bart (talk) 08:11, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  pityriasis rosea help 

message: The pictures with this article show very uncharacteristic presentations of the disease. Try the Dutch article which has a beautiful picture of a typical rash. The viral origin of the disease is by no means settled, though hypotheses abound.
Bart (talk) 08:09, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  poor pictures