- Management: Antibiotics
- Complications: Acute glomerulonephritis
- Nursing: good hygiene to prevent spread of infection to others.
Cellulitis
- Deep infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue caused by Group A Strep or S
Aureus
- Bacteria enters through a break in the skin, then Inflammation spreads horizontally
- Warm, red, swollen and painful
- Fever, malaise, chills, leukocytosis, elevated Sedimintation Rate
- Bed rest, elevation of affect part, antibiotics
- Resolves in 2 weeks with TX
Folliculitis & furuncle
- Folliculitis is an infection of bacterial or fungal origin that arises within the hair
follicles.
- A furuncle (boil) is an acute inflammation arising deep in one or more hair follicles
and spreading into the surrounding dermis. It is a deep form of folliculitis.
Carbuncle
- An abscess of the skin and subcutaneous tissue that represents an extension of a
furuncle that has invaded several follicles and is large and deep-seated.