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A letter to the editor is presented which highlights a case report involving a 6-month-old girl with psoriatic skin lesions induced by Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination.

Focuses on the etiology of the chronic nodular prurigo, a type of skin disease. Characteristics of prurigo; Revelation that unlike eczematous reactions, lesions of prurigo rarely become confluent or form lichenified plaque; Information that prurigo can coexist with several other eczematous skin diseases like atopic dermatitis; Description of a patient with medical history of prurigo.

In 2013, a guideline for occupational allergic diseases was published for the first time in Japan. Occupational allergic diseases are likely to worsen or become intractable as a result of continuous exposure to high concentrations of causative antigens, and are socioeconomically important diseases with which the patients might sometimes lose jobs due to work interruptions. Guidelines for occupational allergic diseases have been published in many countries. This guideline consists of six chapters about occupational asthma, occupational allergic rhinitis, occupational skin diseases, hypersensitivity pneumonitis and occupational anaphylaxis shock, and legal aspects of these diseases. The guideline is characterized with the following basic structure: Clinical Questions (CQs) are set with reference to Minds (Medical Information Network Distribution Service), statements by the committee are correspondingly listed, recommended grades and evidence levels are defined, and then descriptions and references are indicated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]