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Impetigo won't go away

I'm 19 years old and I have had impetigo around my mouth for over two months now and nothing seems to help it. Ive been on three rounds of Flucloxacillin and have also been using Fucidin cream alongside it, but nothing has cured it. It seems to get better to the point that it is almost completely gone, but then I go to bed and wake up the next day and the thick crust has returned. Ive been changing my pillow cases every night and I've tried to avoid touching it, however alongside the impetigo, I now have some sort of red, dry rash all around my mouth which arguably looks worse than the impetigo, and I can't move my mouth properly unless I put cream on it. I also had swaps taken from the impetigo that were sent to bacteriology but they came back negative. Please help I am desperate, it's been really getting me down and I'll try anything at this point.
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I am not a doctor, but I've been through something similar. It won't hurt you to try my advice. Take Lysine and don't eat tomatoes, even pizza sauce for a month. Seriously. My strategy might cost you $10 max to try, so it's very low cost to at least try. 500mg of lysine on an empty stomach. One in the AM and maybe one at PM- up to you. Maybe just once a day is fine. This stops people from getting mouth blisters like what you are experiencing. If you don't believe me, go ahead and read the reviews on Amazon of various Lysine supplements.
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