What’s Impetigo? Impetigo is a skin infection disease that can affect all ages, but most often this disease are infants and children, e...
What’s Impetigo?
Impetigo is a skin infection disease that can affect all ages, but most often this disease are infants and children, especially those aged 2 to 5 years, which is less body hygiene maintained. While in adults, impetigo can occur after other skin disease, after an upper respiratory infection such as influenza or other viral infection, and after an injury or a condition that causes a tear in the skin (such as fungal infections, insect bites, or wounds fuel because of the sun). However, impetigo can also attack normal skin.Impetigo disease can attack any part of the body, but most often found attacking the face, arms, and legs. Impetigo is composed of two types, namely krutosa impetigo (impetigo kontagiosa) and bullous impetigo.
Impetigo kruotosa also called impetigo kontagiosa usually without fluid-filled bubbles with a crust (scab or scabs) brownish yellow, like honey layered.
Impetigo Causes Krutosa
Impetigo is usually caused Krutosa bacterium Staphylococcus aureus or hemolytic streptococcus group A or B, or a combination of both bacteria. Meanwhile, impetigo Bullous impetigo is a form of the main symptoms such as blisters containing yellowish fluid. Impetigo Bullous impetigo is also known as monkey pox. The disease is caused by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus.
Symptoms of Impetigo
Impetigo symptoms include:
- Surface blisters, discharge, and sometimes pus, then dry out and scab arise.
- In bullous impetigo, a kind of pouch formed of thin, soft, and contain a yellowish liquid.
- Itching and burning.
- Often accompanied by enlarged glands (lymphadenopathy) around the infected areas.
Impetigo is a contagious disease, most people with a Java call sulet and believe that this is the cause of the burning clothes or diapers child. Cause of this assumption is the view that this disease skin similar to sunburn (a myth that can not be proven scientifically).
Transmission of the disease occurs through the fluid from the blisters. Besides infectious to others, the infection can also spread to other parts of the body, for example due to actions scratching the affected skin, and hand-held parts of the body tapa washed thoroughly with soap first.
To prevent contracting the disease impetigo or infected spread to other parts of the body, can be done with the preventive measures, among others, as follows.
- Maintain cleanliness of the body by bathing regularly at least twice a day. For problematic skin, can be used antiseptic soap. However, the use of soap should be avoided by people with sensitive skin because it may irritate the skin.
- Avoiding contact with people with impetigo.
- Washing hands regularly and keep fingernails short to keep them clean as well.
- In contact with impetigo patients, should immediately wash hands or affected parts yan skin contact with soap and running water.
- Wash clothes, towels, bedding, or toys separately with impetigo patients belonging to other people healthy.
- Wash clothes, towels, or sheets of patients using hot water and dry them in the sun or a hot dryer.
- Use gloves when applying medicine on the infected skin. Then immediately wash hands with soap after.
Impetigo can usually heal themselves within a few weeks without leaving a scar. However, immediate treatment remains to be done to prevent the occurrence of complications and infections spread to other parts of the body or infectious to others.
Treatment of impetigo also aims to eliminate complaints such as itching and burning feeling, Memepercepat healing, and prevent disease recurrence. Treatment of impetigo is done using antibiotics, either in the form of a topical ointment or oral antibiotics. But who needs to be remembered, this treatment should be done with instructions and a prescription after the previous examination.
Impetigo patients who had went to the doctor and take medication as directed should be back to visit a doctor immediately if the disease is not cured, even spread or other complaints arise.
Source : Keen Achroni . "Semua Rahasia Kulit Cantik dan Sehat Ada sini ".
