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What Causes Pus-filled Bumps On The Body While Suffering From Eczema?

my 3 month old has eczema but it has developed into spots, pussy spots, some have crusted over yellow, and within the folds of his skin it is moist, weeping and smelling quite badly. we’ve completed 5 days if Aciclovir - the hopistal thought it was probably chicken pox or herpes-eczema, but it is still very bad and we are considering that it could be a different infection including impetigo / ecthyma, and i have concerns over the smelly areas and gangrene. we are keeping him cool, trying to wash everything that is used, give him oat baths and we have a multitude of different creams from doctors and homeopaths - but it’s very difficult to choose the right path if we don’t know what the true infection is. we have a swab scheduled soon but any further advise would be helpful!
Thu, 7 Jun 2018
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

As per your description it seems like secondary infection following chicken pox. Start antibiotics empirically, anoxicilin syrup is the best one change the antibiotics according to pis swab results. Do saline soakings and apply antibiotic ointments like neosporin. If pus get collected inside the vesicles break them and release.

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What Causes Pus-filled Bumps On The Body While Suffering From Eczema?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. As per your description it seems like secondary infection following chicken pox. Start antibiotics empirically, anoxicilin syrup is the best one change the antibiotics according to pis swab results. Do saline soakings and apply antibiotic ointments like neosporin. If pus get collected inside the vesicles break them and release. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.