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Red Spot On Face, Turned To Scab. What Is It?
My daughter had one red spot on her face and two days later it turned into a scab. She is three years old. The next day about 5-7 more fits showed up on her face still just red and she says they don t itch or hurt or anything. Not sure what it is it doesn t look like it does when she had hand foot and mouth, but I don t feel it is just acne since these last few spots all appeared in about 45 minutes
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Tue, 26 Feb 2013
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Your daughter is having impetigo contagiosa. It is a bacterial infection. Give her tab cephalexine 125 mg thrice day for 1 week, tab. Paa kid thrice day for 1 week, apply mupirocin oint twice day on lesions and in nostril at night. Give her dettol bath. Improve her immunity by good food. Investigate for any internal disease.
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