Background: Dermatological ailments in children contribute to one-third of outpatient visits in the dermatology department. Among these, cutaneous infections and infestations are found to be the most common as per various studies. This study was conducted to find out the commonest cutaneous infections and infestations in children. 

Aim: To find out the prevalence and changing trends in the epidemiology of various cutaneous infections and infestations of the pediatric population.

Methods: The medical records of all children aged 0 to15 years who attended the DVL OPD of a tertiary care center for a period of one year from January 2022 to December 2022 were analyzed retrospectively for this descriptive study.

Results: Total number of children who attended the clinicwas1123, among them 587 children were males and 536 were females. A total of 70.97% of infections and 29% of infestations were recorded and among them, fungal infections were54.49% followed by infestations at 29%, bacterial infections at 9.2%, and viral infections at 7.2%.

Conclusions: In the present study, 70% of the children had infections, with fungal infections (54.49%) being the most common type compared to prior studies. We found a change in the trend from bacterial to fungal, which can be attributed to the epidemic-like scenario of dermatophytosis in India.