Erysipelas-like appearance

Introduction The erysipelas-like appearance is the clinical manifestation of erysipelas. Erysipelas is an acute inflammation of the skin and its reticular lymphatic vessels. Occurs in the lower limbs and face. Its clinical manifestations are acute onset, localized flaky rash with clear boundaries, bright red color, and a slight bulge, fading. The surface of the skin is hot and hot, spreading rapidly around, causing burning pain. With high fever, chills and headaches. Mild abrasions or scratches, injuries outside the head, unclean umbilical cord ligation, vaccination, and chronic leg ulcers can all cause the disease. Pathogenic bacteria can lurk in the lymphatic vessels and cause recurrence.

Cause

The pathogen of erysipelas is group A B-type hemolytic streptococcus, occasionally caused by type C or c-type streptococci. It is often invaded by the damaged part of the skin or mucous membrane, and can also be infected by blood. Therefore, factors such as nasal inflammation, nose, ear, and foot solution often become the cause of erysipelas, and the pathogen can lurk in the lymphatic vessels to cause recurrence. Others such as malnutrition, excessive alcohol abuse, gamma globulin deficiency and renal edema can be the triggering factors for erysipelas.

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Skin color skin smear microscopy

The edematous erythema with localized borders rapidly expands to the periphery. Blisters may appear on the surface of the skin lesions. It may cause burning pain, which may be accompanied by lymphangitis and lymphadenitis. It is more common in the face and calf, and the nose is often present before the onset of facial damage. Vestibular inflammation or external auditory canal, calf damage is often associated with ankle. And often have a tendency to relapse, the symptoms are often milder when recurring. Infants are more common in the abdomen and are associated with umbilical infections. There is pigmentation left behind.

Gram staining and bacterial culture of wounds and damaged swabs, blood anti-chain and blood leukocytes, lower limb erysipelas should be performed on the toe dandruff mycology, facial erysipelas should be performed by paranasal sinus radiography.

Differential diagnosis

Differential diagnosis of erysipelas-like appearance:

Eczema: It is a common inflammatory skin disease caused by a variety of internal and external factors in the epidermis and dermis. It is generally considered to be related to allergies. Its clinical manifestations are characterized by symmetry, exudation, pruritus, pleomorphism and recurrence. It is also an allergic inflammatory skin disease characterized by rash diversity, symmetric distribution, repeated itching, and easy to evolve into chronic. Can occur in any part of any age, any season, but often in the winter recurrence or exacerbation of exudation tendency, chronic course, easy to recurrent.

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