Impetigo - a disease that has no age. But the easiest children are ill. Why? How to notice the impetue in time and what should be the treatment? Answers to these questions should know all moms, t.To. The health and other family members depends on their timely and correct actions: impetigo - infectious disease.
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Where is the impetigo comes from
Where is the primary focus of impetigo? There is a small irritation on the skin or damage to it: scratch, wound. A child dirty hands is touching this irritation or damage, it scratches it. And - introduces staphylococcal or, more often, streptococcal infection, very similar to the one that causes scarletin or slander inflammation. Here is one of the reasons why impetigo requires energetic treatment, allowing to achieve rapid healing: this streptococcus can cause severe complications on the kidneys or joints.
Although this is a sharp inflammatory disease caused by the infection, and is not considered particularly difficult, but it has deserved an extremely bad reputation and requires a long-term isolation of the child's sick impetigo, because it is easily transmitted from the patient to healthy.
All moms who collided with this skin disease, know that it is developing very quickly, and it should be treated as quickly and very vigorously to avoid its further dissemination and infection of all family members, especially other children.
Symptoms of impetigo
The impetigo is manifested in the occurrence of small bubbles, filled with windy, but gradually muttoning content. Bubbles are quite soon open, their contents dries up, turning into the amber color of a crust, a little bit more developed: exulting agent, appearance resembling bee wax. The skin around such crusts is inflamed. The bubbles are most often formed on the face, around the eyes, mouth, on the legs and forearms, as purposefully, it is in those places that the child is easier to comb.Located nearby the lymph nodes sometimes sweat and become painful.
How
carry out treatment of impetigo
The treatment is primarily in the strictest observance of all the rules of hygiene. You need to briefly cut to clean your nails with a brush, you need to wash your hands with an antiseptic soap so that the child can transfer pathogens to clean parts of the body and could not infect his brothers, sisters and friends.
Child need to wash with antiseptic soap, at least twice a day. In addition, it is necessary to soften crusts with compresses with special solutions and remove them, because if the microbes remain under crusts, it is difficult to achieve efficiency from local treatment. After the crusts are removed (you will see that a bright red erosive surface remains under them), you need to burn the places where they are located, the dye alcohol solution, such as greenflaw or eosine, and lubricate the anti-inflammatory cream on anti-. Biotics. No dressings are not necessary: it is better to keep the affected places open to air access.
With such intensive treatment, the impetigo is cured for several days, without causing the slightest problems and does not lead to any complications. But it is necessary to continue treatment right up to the disappearance of the last crust!
