How should you treat cellulitis

summary

Cellulitis refers to the extensive and diffuse suppurative inflammation of skin and subcutaneous tissue caused by Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic streptococcus or saprophytic bacteria. Dermis and subcutaneous tissue have extensive, acute suppurative inflammatory changes, hair follicles, sebaceous glands, sweat glands are destroyed, late granuloma formation. Honeycomb tissue has no affected area, local skin, severe pain, diffuse redness and swelling, boundary is not clear, there can be significant depression edema. So what kind of clinical manifestation does cellulitis have? Now let me talk about it.

How should you treat cellulitis

First: cellulitis local skin will feel severe pain, diffuse swelling, the state is not clear, accompanied by significant iconic edema, at the beginning of the hard block, and then after a period of time will slowly become soft, ulceration and ulceration, about two weeks later, can scar and heal.

Second: suffering from cellulitis, patients, have chills, fever and other systemic symptoms, some patients, can occur, lymphadenitis, lymphangitis, gangrene, sepsis and so on. Periorbital cellulitis is a serious form of cellulitis. The eyes will be red and swollen.

Third: according to the skin boundary is not clear swelling, spontaneous pain and tenderness, the center can be softened, fluctuations and ulceration can be diagnosed. Cellulitis should be differentiated from erysipelas. Erysipelas is a kind of inflammatory erythema with clear boundary. The lesion is relatively shallow and mild.

matters needing attention

Usually, patients should be given more nutrition, multivitamin oral liquid, must be home pain and antipyretic drugs, must be early application of large doses of antibiotics, local hot compress, limb should reduce activity. You can also use ultraviolet or ultrashort wave physiotherapy. When the abscess is formed, you need to cut and drain and change the dressing every day.