The Rash That Crawled: Dr Chetan K. Ganteppanavar's Encounter with a Rare Diagnosis
A 23-year-old college student presented with an itchy rash over his left leg, persisting for nearly one month. The rash showed no signs of healing and was slowly increasing in size. He described a strange sensation — as if something was crawling under the skin every day. The itching was worse at night. Despite taking multiple courses of oral antibiotics and using antibiotic and antifungal creams, there was no improvement. On further history, he had recently gone for a forest trek near Belagavi, Karnataka, and recalled a possible insect bite at the same site about 45 days earlier, which had initially bled.