INFECTIONS

BACTERIAL.
IMPETIGO
FOLLICULITIS.
FURUNCULOSIS.
CARBUNCLE.
PSEUDOFOLLICULITIS.
ECHTHYMA
STAPHYLOCOCCAL
SCALDED SKIN
SYNDROME
ERYSIPELAS.
CELLULITIS.
BACTERIAL
IMPETIGO.
IS AN SUPERFICIAL
INFECTION OF SKIN
CAUSED BY BOTH
STAPHYLOCOCCI AND
STREPTOCOCCI.
TYPES.
CONTAGIOSA.
BULLOUS.
BULLOUS IMPETIGO
FEATURES
CONTENTS ARE FIRST CLEAR
LATER CLOUDY

BULLAE LESS RAPIDLY
RUPTURED.

LARGER IN SIZE.

PERSIST FOR 2-3 DAYS.

CENTRAL HEALING AND
PERIPHERAL EXTENSION MAY
GIVE RISE TO CIRCINATE LESION.


BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
FOLLICULITIS.
IS A SUBACUTE AND
CHRONIC
INFLAMMATION OF A
HAIR FOLLICLE.



FURUNCULOSIS.
IS AN ACUTE DEEP
SEATED
INFLAMMATION OF A
HAIR FOLLICLE


BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
CARBUNCLE
IS AN INFLAMMATION OF
MULTIPLE HAIR
FOLLICLE LEADING TO
MULTIPLE DISCHARGING
SINUSES.


PSEUDOFOLLICULITIS
IS AN INFLAMMATION
RESULTS FROM
PENETRATION INTO THE
SKIN OF SHARP TIPS OF
SHAVED HAIRS.

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
ECHTHYMA.


IS AN PYOGENIC INFECTION
OF THE SKIN CHARACTERISED
BY THE CRUST FORMATION
BENEATH WHICH ULCERATION
OCCURS.



BACTERIAL INFECTION
STAPHYLOCOCCAL
SCALDED SKIN
SYNDROME.
SSSS IS AN EXFOLIATIVE
DERMATOSIS IN WHICH
MOST OF THE BODY
SURFACE BECOMES
ERYTHEMATOUS AND
NECROTIC SUPERFICIAL
EPIDERMIS STRIPS OFF

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
ERYSIPELAS

IS A BACTERIAL
INFECTIONOF THE
DERMIS AND UPPER
SUBCUTANEOUS
TISSUE.
WELL DEFINED
RAISED EDGE.
BLISTERING IS
COMMON.






BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
CELLULITIS
CHRONICINFLAMMATION
OF LOOSE CONNECTIVE
TISSUE.
DIFFUSE SWELLING NO
REGULAR EDGES.
SEVERE CASES MAY SHOW
BULLAE.

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
DIAGNOSIS.
HISTORY.
CLINICAL FEATURES.
ROUTINE INVESTIGATIONS.
BLOOD SUGAR.
SPECIMEN FOR BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION.
VESICAL FLUID OR ERODED OR ULCERATED SURFACES
SWABS FROM NOSE AND THROAT.
BLOOD CULTURE.
SKIN BIOPSY.
SEROLOGICAL TEST.
ASO TITRE .
ANTI DNAase ANTIBODY.
ANTI hyaluronidase ANTIBODY




BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
TREATMENT
GENERAL.
FACTORS PREDISPOSING TO INFECTION SHOULD BE IDENTIFIED AND TREATED.
GENERAL HYGIENE AND NUTRITION SHOULD BE IMPROVED
ANAEMIA SHOULD BE CORRECTED.
DIABETES MUST BE TREATED.
TOPICAL.
WASH THE LESIONS WITH NORMAL SALINE.
ANTIBIOTICS.POLYMYXIN GENTAMYCIN FUCIDIC ACID AND MUPIROCIN
ANTISEPTICS.
ANTIPERSPIRANT.
SYSTEMIC.
PENICILLIN.
ERYTHROMYCIN.
CLOXACILLIN.
VANCOMYCIN.
CARRIERS.
RIFAMPICIN.
TOPICAL MUPIROCIN.
TOPICAL FUCIDIC ACID.