5 year old with persistant boils

[Just Me]

Sounds like a staff infection ... I had one about ten years ago and they are not fun!

Here are some things we had to do to get rid of it ...

- Use a clean towel everytime you have a shower and definitely no towel sharing
- Change bedsheets daily
- Regular baths in salt water (they can sting once the boil opens up)
- Keep even unopened boils covered to try and prevent spread
- We had to put bettadine inside our noses to stop the germs being airborn. Don't know if that helped me get over it or stopped other people getting them.
- Regularly disinfect any surfaces in the house
- Use betadine on any mosquito bites, scratches, grazes - anything that can possibly become infected
- Washing hands before we ate
- We were also putting bicarb paste (water and bicarb powder) on the boils (under bandaids) before they opened up to try and bring the infection to the surface.
- Changing dressings regularly throughout the day.

Generally we just had to use extremely vigilent hygeine to make sure that we weren't spreading the germs further or reinfecting ourselves. I wasn't playing with toys at the time, but I would be throwing all her toys into a big bath of disinfectant every couple of days as well. It's a huge job but really important. I realise you are probably doing a lot of that already, but thought I would put it in anyway.

I had my infection on and off for about 18 months before it finally went away for good. It was really painful and I have scars on my body from some of the boils. It really was horrible. I hope your DD recovers much faster than I did. Good luck.