How To Recognize Cellulitis - Medical Condition Of Skin
Posted: Monday, September 20, 2010
by John Williams
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Introduction
How to recognize cellulitis, one of most common skin medical condition? What are prevention measures for that kind of skin infection? What are the most often causes? How we got this skin infection? These and many other questions worried lots of people every day. In this article today I'll try to explain some basics with intention to reduce initial shock, present at the beginning of this very common and very unpleasant skin infection. This type of skin infection knows no gender or age, it affects all age groups, from the youngest to the oldest people. It is not difficult to recognize infection if you know the main symptoms. Symptoms can be divided into local and systemic. Local symptoms are reflecting place affected by this disease, while systematically symptoms can affect any part of the human organism.
In this section we will emphasize the importance of education about the symptoms of this common medical condition of the skin and deeper tissues. Most infections caused by bacteria has similar symptoms but now I'll try to explain how to distinguish and recognize the symptoms if it is indeed a cellulitis infection. In most cases symptoms are: Inflammation and redness of affected region, Sensitivity and pain to touch the skin; Warmth of infected skin to the touch and of course, Swelling of affected skin area. Except these four main symptoms fever and chills are not rare too. It is important to notice that symptoms usually vary from patient to patient. Every person may have specific response to this medical condition.
About Causes, Diagnosis And Treatment
This type of infection is usually caused by changes of normal skin flora or exogenous bacteria types, inflammation generally starts at the point where skin was previously broken (cuts, blisters, burns, cracks in the skin, surgical wounds, sites of intravenous catheter insertion etc.). Streptococcus type A and Staphylococcus Aureus are two most common types of bacteria that are known as cellulitis infection causes. Diagnosis for this skin disease usually consists of three important steps.First step contains examination of patient medical records and medical history, after that follows most important step in diagnosis process - the physical exam.Process of diagnosis usually ends with certain blood test in order to confirm presence of bacterial disease.In case that diagnosis process confirm presence of infection, it is very important that treatment process start as soon is possible. In this circumstances antibiotics are usually best solution to heal this type of infection. Antibiotics are used orally or intravenous depending of severity affected skin area. In case of recurrence of disease treatment with antibiotics may last up to several months.
Conclusion
Cellulitis is a common infection of dermis and subcutaneous tissues that affects people of all ages and can occur on any part of the body. As we previously noted main cause of this type of infection is mostly bacteria (staph or strep) and treatment should be start as soon as possible. This type of disease is very rapid and uncontrolled spread. If is not treated, that kind of infection can cause serious damage to human organic structure. And just one more important thing in order to complete basic picture about this infection. Cellulitis is not contagious infection.
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