Default Style Register
Daycare.com Forum
Daycare Center and Family Home Forum>Impetigo or Pimple That Has Been Picked?
Baby Beluga 04:24 PM 04-14-2020
I have zero real life experience with impetigo. Does this look like it, or a pimple that popped and was picked at?

DCK, 3, had this Monday. Did not have anything on Friday. Mom said child got it over the weekend, and thinks it was a pimple that popped and DCK keeps picking at it.

I don't want to unnecessarily exclude a child and refer them to the pediatrician's office (especially in our current situation) but I also don't want something possibly spreading here.

Help?


Reply
Cat Herder 04:08 AM 04-15-2020
It looks ulcerated to me. Maybe a scrape, maybe a cold sore. It also looks mostly healed though, I'd just go with a day or two of Neosporin and a small waterproof bandage.
Reply
Baby Beluga 07:30 AM 04-15-2020
Thank you CH, I so appreciate you!
Reply
Cat Herder 08:18 AM 04-15-2020
You are very welcome.
Reply
AmyKidsCo 01:18 PM 04-15-2020
Impetigo is usually wet in the middle and crusty yellow on the edges.

ITA to watch it for another day or two and see what it does. If it doesn't heal more or gets bigger it's impetigo. If it heals more it's not.
Reply
Tags:impetigo
Reply Up