Streptoderma in children
Streptoderma is a streptococcal skin lesion. It often affects children, because their immune system is not fully formed, but with close contact in closed children's groups (through clothes, touch, toys), the infection spreads very quickly.
The incubation period of the disease is about seven days, after which the child may experience itchy skin, rise in body temperature, and enlarge the lymph nodes. The main symptom of streptoderma in children is the appearance on the skin of small (the size of a match head) transparent vesicles with liquid, surrounded by a red ring. Over time, these blisters turn into abscesses, and the skin around it flakes off with scales.
Treatment of streptoderma in children
The primary task of treating streptoderma in children is to eliminate the pathogenicity factor - streptococcus bacteria, as well as to increase the child's immunity. Patients are treated in dermatovenerologic dispensaries. Since streptoderma is an extremely contagious disease, patients are isolated in separate rooms. The room where the patient is located must be cleaned daily with the use of disinfectants, well ventilated and quartz. A sick child should have their own dishes, bedding and other personal hygiene items.
If the skin is very itchy, you need to trim your nails daily, and lubricate the skin around the abscesses with alcohol tincture of iodine. When streptoderma affects a large area of the skin, it is recommended to temporarily refrain from water treatments. Instead, bedding and clothing should be changed frequently.
Drug treatment involves the use of antibacterial agents, such as amoxicillin.
Taking vitamins and vitamin-containing preparations will help improve immunity. Modern medicine uses laser treatment for streptoderma (ILBI). Heat and cold treatments are also used. Warm lotions and warming compresses help to open up purulent blisters faster, while cold ones reduce inflammation and reduce the activity of streptococcus bacteria.
In the treatment of streptoderma, massage is actively used to help remove dead skin cells and increase its elasticity. It also promotes the expansion of blood vessels and the removal of excess secretions from the sebaceous glands.
It must be remembered that when applying lotions to the affected areas, you need to ensure that they do not heat up or dry out. You need to change the lotions every 15 minutes. In children, streptoderma is treated with lead water, boric acid solution and resorcinol.
To soothe inflamed skin, various powders are used, drying, cooling and relieving itching. For such purposes, starch powder, talcum powder, zinc oxide, white clay (applied with a cotton swab) are used.
Salicylic ointments and patches have a stronger effect. With a small area of the affected skin, it is useful to carry out water procedures with sulfur, tar or resorcinol soap. To dry the pus flowing from the burst blisters, they are smeared with iodine or brilliant green.
If a child's streptoderma becomes chronic, surgical treatment may be necessary to remove dead tissue and affected skin areas. Also, sometimes the blisters are opened with a sterile needle, and bandages with antiseptic solutions are applied on top. It is widely used in the treatment of streptoderma in children and herbal medicine. Plants such as burdock, onion, garlic and yarrow kill the Streptococcus bacillus. Decoctions, infusions and ointments based on medicinal plants are used to prepare lotions, compresses, powders and ointments.
Article author: Mochalov Pavel Alexandrovich | d. m. n. therapist
Education: Moscow Medical Institute. IM Sechenov, specialty - "General Medicine" in 1991, in 1993 "Occupational Diseases", in 1996 "Therapy".
