Dermatology: Practical and Conceptual Image Letter | Dermatol Pract Concept 2020;10(1):e2020009 1 Dermatology Practical & Conceptual Case Presentation An otherwise healthy 5-year-old girl presented during the summer with painful shiny erythematous patches and some blisters on the finger pads of both hands and on the palms of 1 week’s duration (Figure 1). On further questioning, her father mentioned that she had been playing and swimming all week in a swimming pool. A diagnosis of pool palms was made. Avoidance of the swimming pool for a couple of days was recommended. No further treatment was indicated. Pool Palms Daniel Morgado-Carrasco,1 Hernán Feola,2 Pablo Vargas-Mora3 1 Department of Dermatology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain 2 Department of Dermatology, Hospital San Juan de Dios, La Plata, Argentina 3 Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile Keywords: pool palms, swimming pool, frictional dermatitis, dermatitis, summertime Citation: Morgado-Carrasco D, Feola H, Vargas-Mora P. Pool palms. Dermatol Pract Concept. 2020;10(1):e2020009. DOI: https://doi. org/10.5826/dpc.1001a09 Accepted: November 3, 2019; Published: December 31, 2019 Copyright: ©2019 Morgado-Carrasco et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: None. Competing interests: The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose. Authorship: All authors have contributed significantly to this publication. Corresponding Author: Daniel Morgado-Carrasco, MD, Department of Dermatology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Email: morgadodaniel8@gmail.com Figure 1. Pool palms. Shiny erythematous patches and some blisters on the finger pads of both hands and on the palms of a 5-year- old girl. mailto:morgadodaniel8@gmail.com 2 Image Letter | Dermatol Pract Concept 2020;10(1):e2020009 tendency to rub against the pool surface when playing [2]. Cessation of the activity leads to rapid symptom resolution. References 1. Wong LC, Rogers M. Pool palms. Pediatr Dermatol. 2007;24(1):95. 2. Novoa A, Klear S. Pool palms. Arch Dis Child. 2016;101(1):41. Teaching Point Pool palms is a relatively frequent benign disorder, although scarcely described in the literature. It is a frictional dermatitis that affects the skin of the hands and feet after repeated con- tact with rough pool surfaces [1]. It is more frequent in child- hood, probably because of children’s skin fragility and their