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Overview
History and Symptoms
- Symptoms in newborns may include:
- Failure to gain weight or failure to thrive
- Fever
- Irritability
- No bridge to nose (saddle nose)
- Early rash - small blisters on the palms and soles
- Later rash - copper-colored, flat or bumpy rash on the face, palms, and soles
- Rash of the mouth, genitalia, and anus
- Watery discharge from the nose
- Symptoms in older infants and young children may include:
- Abnormal notched and peg-shaped teeth, called Hutchinson teeth
- Bone pain
- Blindness
- Clouding of the cornea
- Decreased hearing or deafness
- Gray, mucus-like patches on the anus and outer vagina
- Joint swelling
- Refusal to move a painful arm or leg
- Saber shins (bone problem of the lower leg)
- Scarring of the skin around the mouth, genitalia, and anus