Impetigo Dangerous infectious skin diseases In children

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Impetigo is a contagious skin disease characterized by Red sores on the face, nose or mouth. Causes of impetigo is bacteria that get into the body through the skin that is injured or in children with healthy skin. Even though Impetigo may heal on its own but to reduce the risk of complications is required treatment on a child who experienced the impetigo.

Impetigo is a contagious skin disease characterized by Red sores on the face, nose or mouth. Causes of impetigo is bacteria that get into the body through the skin that is injured or in children with healthy skin. Even though Impetigo may heal on its own but to reduce the risk of complications is required treatment on a child who experienced the impetigo.  In some cases children who experienced the Impetigo that is marked with wounds like a blister. Although no harm but complications in children undergoing Impetigo may occur. This is the importance of the role of parents in conducting prevention and treatment (if the child is already stricken with Impetigo). At this time the article will be discussed about the type of impetigo, the characteristics of children afflicted by impetigo, the factors that cause children stricken with Impetigo, prevention can be done and tips treatment in children afflicted by Impetigo.
Impetigo in kids


In some cases children who experienced the Impetigo that is marked with wounds like a blister. Although no harm but complications in children undergoing Impetigo may occur. This is the importance of the role of parents in conducting prevention and treatment,if the child is already stricken with Impetigo.

Type Of Impetigo

Impetigo is a highly contagious disease. Even if about cuts or items held. Impetigo can heal on its own but will soon do better treatment so as not to spread the infection and going to get worse.

Impetigo has some kind of, the following are types of impetigo that can rub off on kids :

1. Impetigo Contagiosa

Type of impetigo has red sores on the face and often appear on the mouth and nose. On the type of impetigo contagiosa wound will quickly burst, watery and have pus even on dry conditions may experience brownish. Impetigo Contagiosa poses no fever but the swelling of the lymph nodes. Impetigo is easily contagious so spread of infection into the body more easily.

2. Bullous Impetigo

This type of attack a lot of children under 2 years old. Although impetigo aches and blisters containing fluid. Wound infections can be a time to heal and wounds out back long rather than other types of impetigo. Body parts are often stricken with bullous impetigo is the body, legs and arms.

3. Ecthyma

Type of impetigo can invade the dermis. The symptoms of children who experience this type of impetigo wound pain, has a fluid or festering. The scars will be difficult missing although it had healed even to result in swollen lymph nodes on the infected body part.

In addition impetigo can lead to complications though rare as Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis (PSGN) i.e. kidney inflammation that develops due to a bacterial infection and often attack children aged 6-10 years. Next the Cellulitis that attacks the tissues under the skin and will spread to the lymph nodes and enter the bloodstream. There are unisex which cause infection methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) antibiotics is immune. The last can cause complications that cause skin color becomes dark or light.

Factors which cause Impetigo

Impetigo is a disease that is caused due to bacterial infection. Despite this disease impetigo in children may occur due to contact with sufferers. The disease is highly contagious even on goods or objects previously impetigo sufferers.

The following are some of the factors that lead to the spread of impetigo:


  • When you interact with friends who suffered from impetigo to allow the occurrence of direct touch with sores impetigo and spread.
  • On the weather hot and humid infection impetigo more easily attack the children.
  • On the affected skin wound to ease the onset of bacterial infections cause impetigo goes into the skin wound.
  • Children who suffer more susceptible because of diabete ecthyma more serious types of impetigo.

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The Characteristics Of Children Stricken With Impetigo

Impetigo is not a disease that is dangerous to the in touch system fatal child but Impetigo would disrupt children's health more seriously when left. Impetigo is a skin infection caused by germs that attack the Aures Staphylocovvus kids of all ages. Whereas in children aged 2-5 years is generally caused due to streptococcoli. Types of germs is so easily transmitted.



In children afflicted by Impetigo will experience a red wound on areas of the face and then on around the nose and mouth of the child. Even the public experienced by children who have experienced Impetigo. If the wound is the son getting worse then the wound will burst and pulled out a couple of days so that pus will form a crust that is colored yellowish brown or ulcers on the skin area.

Children afflicted by germs cause Impetigo can be inferred to have traits such as the following:


  • Child has Skin the color of Red is accompanied by small spots on the face, head and hands.
  • On the part of the skin which ill be blister so that the discharge that has a honey yellow color and the more spacious.
  • A child who contracted the impetigo will experience itching in the area of the red color in the skin.
  • If the pain will be spread on to other parts of the body so that the liquid will blister.
  • Will occur swollen lymph nodes infected on the surrounding area.


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