Treatment of erysipelas, erysipelas home remedies

Condition analysis:
Erysipelas is treated with antibiotics, which may include penicillin, dicloxacillin, cephalosporins, clindamycin, or erythromycin. Most can be treated with oral rather than intravenous (IV) antibiotics. Any pain or discomfort can often be treated with rest, a cold compress, and elevation of the affected extremity.

However, in cases of sepsis (or where infections do not improve with oral antibiotics), IV therapy may be prescribed under hospitalization.

Even after the appropriate treatment of infection, erysipelas can recur in 18 to 30 percent of cases. People who are especially susceptible to recurrence include those with a compromised immune or lymphatic system.

Because erysipelas is known the damage the lymphatic system (the system which transports immune cell through the body), the infection itself can increase the risk of recurrence. People with recurrent infections may need to be treated with a daily course of low-dose antibiotics.

Instructions:
Graphites. [Graph]
Goodno lauds Graphites as the best remedy in erysipelas. It seems to correspond, however, to the repeated and chronic form occurring about the nose and face and is especially useful after Iodine has been applied externally to the detriment of the case, as it always is. Another indications for Graphites is found in the ease with which an attack is brought on; the slightest irritation to the skin brings on an attack. Recurring cases. No local applications are ever necessary in treating erysipelas, and they frequently cause complication and danger.