My daugher cut her toe on the boardwalk on vacation...about 2 weeks later she developed a severe infection that was treated with oral antibiotic and constant soaking of the infection. It has since cleared but she had develpoed new blisters around her body...first one was on her inner thigh...it was large and puss filled, was hot to the touch and had a golf-ball sized lump underneath it. We did our best to keep it clean. The blister broked and about a day later a hole developed (very scary looking) and since has scabbed over. About 2 days ago another one developed on the same toe that had the infection and one on her buttock, same type of blister, yesterday another one on her finger. I brought her to the dermatologist yesterday and he only looked at it and called it "folliculitis". He didn't even bend down to take a good look or put on some gloves and feel the bumps or the heat....gave her an antibiotic cream and directions to wash with Cetaphil soap and use the cream 2x/day, come back in 2 weeks if not better. Last night was her first treatment...we cleaned them creamed them and covered them with bandaids.
This morning we started to do the treatment and I began to take the bandage off of her hiney...The blister look like it had broken, was still HUGE, hot, red and sore, but there was still a large yellow/green puss ball in the middle so I took some kleenex to wipe it off (very gently, not even a wipe more like taking the corner of the tissue and put it next to the blister to soak it up) and she screamed and it started to ooze with a mixture of blood. I carefully did the same thing and it just kept on coming. There was SOOO much ooze and she cried the whole time that I had to stop...put some cream on the bandaid and covered it up again...
I've read up on the internet about this and mostly everything seems normal, except for the massive amount of ooze. And the biggest thing that bothers me is how did she get this? Was it from her infected toe? Did it get into her system? we were carefully watching her infection to make sure it didn't creep up her toe from her foot and it didn't does that mean it didn't get into her system? I have been trying to get her doctor to call me back but have heard nothing yet. I am concerned that she may have to go on an oral Rx and do not want to prolong this and make it worse...has anyone been through this or have their child go through this? Any help is VERY greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. ~~~> Natalie