Impetigo often affects infants and children. Impetigo is a contagious skin disease characterized by red lesions on the face, around the nose or mouth. The cause of impetigo is a bacterium that enters the body through the skin injured children or in children with healthy skin. Although Impetigo can heal on its own will but to reduce the risk of complications will require treatment in a child with impetigo.
In some cases children who have Impetigo is characterized by injuries such as blisters. Although not harmful but complications in children with impetigo may occur. This is the importance of the role of parents in the prevention and treatment (if the child is stricken with impetigo). In this article will discuss the types of impetigo, the characteristics of children who attacked impetigo, factors that cause impetigo infected children, prevention tips that can be done and the treatment of children who attacked Impetigo.
type Impetigo
Impetigo is a highly contagious disease. Even if the injury or goods on dipegang.Impetigo can heal itself but better immediate treatment to prevent the spread and infection worse.
Impetigo have several types, the following are types of impetigo:
1. Impetigo Contagiosa
This type of impetigo has red sores on the face and often appear in the mouth and nose. On the type of impetigo contagiosa wounds will quickly break up, watery and has pus even in dry conditions will have browned. Impetigo Contagiosa not cause fever but the swelling of the lymph nodes. Impetigo is contagious so that the spread of infection into the body more easily.
2. Bullous Impetigo
This type of attacking children under 2 years. Mekipun impetigo pain and blisters filled with fluid. Wound infections can become raw and long time to recover than other types of impetigo. Body parts are often attacked by bullous impetigo is the body, legs and arms.
3. Ecthyma
Types of impetigo which can attack the skin dermis. Symptoms of impetigo children who have this type of injury hurt, has a liquid or purulent. The scars will be difficult to recover lost even though it could even lead to swelling of lymph nodes in the body that is infected.
In addition, impetigo can lead to complications, although rare as poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis (PSGN) is inflammation of the kidneys that developed as a result of bacterial infection and often affects children aged 6-10 years. Furthermore Cellulitis that attacks the tissues under the skin and will spread to the lymph nodes and into the bloodstream. Those that cause infection methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are resistant to antibiotics. The latter can lead to complications that cause skin color becomes darker or brighter.
Child characteristics Esophageal Impetigo
Impetigo is not a dangerous disease that beruhubungan with fatal system but Impetigo child would interfere with the health of children is more serious if left unchecked. Impetigo is a skin infection caused by the bacteria Staphylocovvus Aures that affects children of all ages. Whereas in children aged 2-5 years is generally caused by the germs streptococcoli.Jenis very contagious.
In children who are stricken with impetigo will have red sores on the face area and then on around the nose and mouth of the child. Even being a common sign that experienced by children who have impetigo. If the injured child will get worse then wound rupture and ooze pus few days so that it will form a golden brown crust or ulcers on the skin area.
Children who attacked the germs that cause impetigo can be inferred to have characteristics such as the following:
1. The child has red skin accompanied with small spots on the face, head and hands.
2. In the skin of the ill will mengelepuh so that a discharge that has a yellow color of honey and more widely.
3. Children infected with impetigo will have itchy red area on the skin.
4. If the pain will spread to parts of the body to another so that the liquid will blister.
5. There will be swelling of the lymph nodes of infected in the surrounding area.
Factors that cause impetigo
Impetigo is a disease caused by bacterial infection. Nonetheless disease impetigo in children may occur due to contact with the patient. The disease is highly contagious and even on items or objects previously impetigo patients.
The following are some of the factors that cause the spread of impetigo:
1. When your child to interact with friends who are suffering from impetigo to allow direct contact with impetigo sores and spread.
2. In hot and humid weather easier impetigo infection in children.
3. In the affected skin wound so as to facilitate the occurrence of the bacteria that cause impetigo infection into the skin lesion.
4. Children with diabete more susceptible due ecthyma more serious than the type of impetigo.
Prevention of impetigo in children
Prevention of the spread of impetigo can be done by keeping the body, including:
1. Wash hands and feet using methamphetamine.
2. If already in contact with a child suffering from impetigo immediately to clean hands with soap.
3. Cut your child's nails regularly to avoid germs infeki impetigo.
4. Try not to touch your nose and mouth when your child hands dirty.
5. In patients with impetigo items that used to be separated, washed with soap and hot water.
Treatment of impetigo in children
To detect disease impetigo in children doctor will see cuts, no need to perform laboratory tests. If the child is suffering from impetigo will be given antibiotics to tackle the spread of this disease. Besides creams and ointments are often given to children who have impetigo.
The wounds that do not heal then be taken in the wound fluid samples to determine the type of antibiotics in accordance with the type of impetigo. Although basically impetigo will heal by itself but if not cured and left it will lead to more serious complications.
Thus impetigo is a skin disease caused by germs, easy to spread even very often attack aged children. The disease is not dangerous but if complications are difficult to heal and be dangerous. This type of disease is very easily prevented by cleaning themselves from bacteria and always clean up when direct contact with suffering from impetigo. Impetigo can be cured with the use of antibiotics as recommended by your doctor, drugs given in the form of a cream or ointment. If it will be difficult to recover laboratory tests to determine the type of antibiotic that is in accordance with the bacteria that cause impetigo in children.
