Table 3 Summary of past medical history in urban-living Aboriginal children
“Has your child ever had …” | Total (n = 80) |
|---|---|
Skin infections | |
- Bacterial skin infection (i.e. impetigo, skin sores, folliculitis, boils, cellulitis, abscess) | 34 (43%) |
- Fungal skin/hair/nail infection (i.e. tinea, ringworm) | 30 (38%) |
- Scabies | 11 (14%) |
Complications from skin infections | |
- Bone or joint infection | 2 (3%) |
- Blood infection | 0 |
- Acute rheumatic fever / Rheumatic heart disease | 0 |
- Acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis | 0 |
Atopy | |
- Eczema/dermatitis | 15 (19%) |
- Hayfever | 13 (16%) |
- Asthma | 9 (11%) |
Iron deficiency | 13 (16%) |