What are the symptoms of epidermolysis bullosa?
What are the symptoms of epidermolysis bullosa?
The signs and symptoms of EB depend on the type, and they usually appear when you’re a baby or toddler. Some symptoms overlap between the types. Symptoms of EB include:
- Blisters on your skin (hands, feet, elbows and knees) or inside your body.
- Thickened calluses on the palms of your hands and soles of your feet.
- Anemia (low levels of red blood cells).
- Fused (attached) fingers or toes.
- Deformed and/or thickened fingernails and toenails.
- Small white bumps on the skin (milia).
- Difficulty swallowing (dysphagia).
- Lack of expected growth in an infant.
- Teeth that don’t develop into an expected size (hypoplasia).