No, pityriasis rosea is not contagious. You cannot get it from another person. The cause of pityriasis rosea is not fully known, but experts believe a viral infection that triggers a skin reaction ...

Before the pandemic began, D.C. dermatologist Adam Friedman routinely treated patients with pityriasis rosea, a temporary but often unbearably itchy skin rash that can last several months. There are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At first, I thought it was a mosquito bite. It looked like one, and it certainly itched like one — but then more came. What ...

PR is a papulosquamous dermatosis. Classically, the condition presents with a single large lesion (herald patch). Within a few days to a few weeks, multiple additional smaller lesions appear along the ...

Very limited research has examined the relationship between pityriasis rosea and anemia, but it may be possible to have both conditions. For instance, a 2014 study involving 52 people with pityriasis ...

In a review of pregnant patients with pityriasis rosea (PR), 19% experienced unfavorable outcomes, which were higher in cases that occurred before 15 weeks gestation. To address conflicting data on ...