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Introduction
What is cellulitis medical condition? How can we prevent that kind of skin disease? What are the most often causes of this infection? How we got this type of infection? These and many other questions worried lots of people every single day, believe me on word. In this, my very first article on this topic I will try to explain some basics about cellulitis with main goal to reduce initial shock, which is normally present at the beginning of this very common and also proven very unpleasant medical condition. 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 this type of disease if you check for main symptoms (usually local - later in text about that...). Symptoms can be divided into local and systemic. Local symptoms are reflecting place affected by this disease(appears right on place where infection started), while systemic symptoms can affect any part of the human organism (can appear on any other part of body structure).
List of Main Symptoms
In most cases general and most common cellulitis symptoms are:
1) inflammation and redness of affected region,
2) sensitivity and pain to touch the skin,
3) warmth of infected skin to the touch and of course,
4) swelling of affected skin area.
When we talk about common symptoms all previous symptoms may come in combination with fever or chills and that is not rare case or strange for cellulitis..
Cellulitis Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment Overview
This type of skininfection 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.). Diagnosis for this skin medical condition 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 for cellulitis 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. In practice, doctors will not always wait for test results. If they have suspicions in cellulitis they will immediately prescribe some of antibiotics and recommend immediately start of treatment.That is not always best solution for patient (if preliminary diagnosis is not correct can weaken natural immune system with strong medicines), but practice showed that shorten drastically period of healing in most cases of cellulitis.Conclusion
Doctors are people like all others and they do anything to stop and heal this infection as soon as possible. On other side, cellulitis is a common infection that affects people of all ages and can occur on any part of the body.This type of infection is not contagious and it's treatable in most cases. Main cause of infection is 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.
With proper reaction time on symptoms (visiting your doctor) and treatment with antibiotics there is no doubt in fast and full recover.
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