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Suggest Treatment For Baby's Weeping And Red Skin
My baby is almost 6 weeks old, she had baby acne at 2 weeks which was quite severe but cleared up, she was left with a lot of dry skin on her forehead which became red and crusty with yellow scabs, took her to our Doctor yesterday who has prescribed fucidin but today, whilst the skin is no longer red the scabs have turned orange. The doctor thought it might be impetigo but I'm not sure. The skin is everso slightly weeping in areas and just looks very angry, saying that, baby doesn't seem bothered!!
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Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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I really appreciate your concern for your baby, looking to the history given here I could say that this is not the impetigo neither this is the acne of any kind but this could be atopic dermatitis, this is common condition among the pediatric patient and gives excellent response to anti histamine treatment, hope this information helps you, have nice day.
Thank for asking to HCM
I really appreciate your concern for your baby, looking to the history given here I could say that this is not the impetigo neither this is the acne of any kind but this could be atopic dermatitis, this is common condition among the pediatric patient and gives excellent response to anti histamine treatment, hope this information helps you, have nice day.
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