impetigo

• Impetigo

  Skin infection, highly contagious
• Impetigo symptoms

  • Common in young children
  • Sores/blisters usually start on the face or hands
  • These can burst - crusty, golden/brown patches
  • Look like yellow crusts stuck to the skin
  • Get bigger & spread to other parts of the body
  • Can be itchy & painful
• impetigo: refer?

  • first time sufferer, refer for diagnosis
  • any secondary infection
• impetigo treatment?

  POM- fusidic acid/flucloxacillin

  Antihistamines- sold OTC to ease itching

  hydrogen peroxide 1% cream- 'crystacide' can be purchased from a pharmacy- apply sparingly to affected area 2-3 times a day. Do not use continuously for more than 3 weeks. Localised non-bullous impetigo.
• impetigo counselling?


  • Children should be kept off school until rash clears/ or 48 hours after starting POM antibiotics
  • rash is clearing when patches dry out and crust over
  • hygiene measures: no sharing towels, cut nails short
• impetigo


  Diagnosis ?

  a young boys mother is worried about her son, who developed these crusty golden brown patches on his face. They’re very itchy & painful

  
• Impetigo 


  Diagnosis ?

  Painful & itchy rash in this little girl, with golden crusty patches