Cellulitis_erysipelas%20(pediatric) Patient Education
Patient Education
- Advise on good personal hygiene and wound care
- Cover draining wounds with clean bandage
- Regularly bathe and wash hands after coming in contact with a wound
- Avoid sharing or reusing items that came in contact with infected skin
- Inspect interdigital toe spaces regularly especially if with lower extremity cellulitis
- Immobilization and elevation of affected limb
- Effects: May help to decrease swelling and pain especially if used early in the course of treatment
- Dressings
- Cool sterile saline dressing may be applied
- Effects: Removes purulent exudate from ulcers or infected abrasions, may help to decrease local pain
- Compression stockings
- May help with edema