You are listening to episode 78, The Rash That Itches,

Exima Management with a Pediatric Dermatologist.

Welcome to this week's episode. I am so excited to welcome Dr. Shivani Patel.

She is a board-certified pediatric dermatologist and she's on Instagram as

Pete's Derm doc and she's joining me today to talk about Exima.

Thank you so much for joining us, Shivani. Thank you so much for having me.

I'm so excited. I connected with you on Instagram and I remember when you joined social media,

I was like, yes, a pediatric dermatologist. Everyone's always asking me about skin stuff.

And as a pediatrician, obviously, I have my own expertise but I love hearing from

the specialist, you know, because obviously in real life, I utilize my pediatric dermatologist

greatly. So I'm just so happy we could connect on social media and that we could connect on

here. Me too. I'm so glad we're doing this and sort of putting more information out there

about Exima because it's such a common skin condition that parents have so many questions about,

so hopefully we can get some of that answered today. And tell me more about yourself and what

drove you to go into pediatric dermatology? Yeah, so I am a board-certified pediatric dermatologist

and a lot of people aren't really aware of what a pediatric dermatologist is but we are a pretty

rare group of dermatologists who spend an extra year after residency training to really learn more

about hair, skin and nails in babies, kids, teenagers, and adolescents. And I was really drawn to it

when I was in residency actually because I enjoyed kind of talking to the whole family unit being

able to be involved with the care of a child and discussing that with each of the parents.

The skin is so visual and I think there's so many kids out there that have skin conditions

that are very rare or genetic syndromes that I found very fascinating to be able to treat

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