Impetigo is also called school sores. Impetigo is a highly contagious skin infection that causes red sores on the face especially around nose, mouth and on limbs.

Impetigo mainly affects infants and childrens. It is the bacterial infection which involves superficial skin.

In serious condition, infection invades into deep layer of skin and turns into form of impetigo known as ecthyma. In ecthyma blisters are pus filled with more thick and more dark often with more itch.

Symptoms

• Reddish sore, often clusters around nose and mouth
• Sore rupture or ooze for a few days, and then forms yellow-brown crust.
• Red rash
• Blisters
• Itching
• Skin lesion
• Swollen lymph nodes

A symptom of impetigo usually appears 2 to 10 days after infection.

Does homeopathy have treatment for impetigo?

The homeopathy has the natural form of medicines made by drug proving on healthy human beings of different age, both sexes, and of various constitutions so the drug proving recordings forms the reliable knowledge of medicine which is very necessary to cure the diseases homeopathically.

In homeopathy treatment, medicines are selected on the basis of the type, skin condition, cause of location and modalities of the complaint so there are many homeopathic medicines which have potential to cure impetigo.

The main goal of homeopathy is not only to treat disease but to destroy the disease completely and to restore health of the patient.

Duration of homeopathic treatment

The homeopathic treatment heals the impetigo in around 1 week. It may also depend on the type and duration of suffering of the infection.

Causes

The most common cause of impetigo are streptococcus pyogen and staphylococcus aureus bacteria.

Other causes

Coming in contact with sores of infected person

Coming in contact with infected things such as clothing, bed, towels, and toys

The persons who are more prone to develop infection

Age : more common in children of 2 to 5 years.

Close contact : skin to skin contact in crowded places

Warm, humid, weather

Broken skin

People with other skin disease like eczema

Weak immune system

Conventional treatment

Mupirocin cream or ointment

Retapamulin ointment

Amoxicillin

Cephalosporins

Clindamycin

Homeopathic medicines for impetigo

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