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Fox-Fordyce disease

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AKA  apocrine miliaria
pruritic
occurs mainly in women (after puberty and may remain until menopause)
especially black women
responds to oral contracteptives

 

mnemonic (to remember affect age group for these diseases):

vulva LS et A in women:  most common before puberty often will spontaneously improve upon puberty and after menopause
an exact opposite to Fox-Fordyce disease: which begins after puberty and may remain until menopause