Infantigo is a skin disease which occurs due to an infectious bacteria. In this disease, the red colored sores appear on skin. It most commonly occurs on face specially around mouth and nose. Other than face it also occurs on limbs and trunk region of the body. The red colored sores are actually blisters which are round in shape covered with skin and filled with pus or fluid. The fluid is clear transparent or sometimes have yellowish appearance due to pus formation.
These blisters give skin red color. It is a highly contagious disease. It's symptoms are clear and can be diagnosed easily. When we talk about its cause, it occurs due to an infectious bacteria named streptococcus and staphylococcus bacteria. These two bacteria are highly contagious and enters in to the skin as a result of a wound. It mainly affects the dermis of skin and destroy it. Dermis is the top most layer of skin in which due to these bacteria red colored blisters are formed which are filled with fluid or pus. Blister formation on skin causes severe itching and redness.
It commonly occurs in people who live in warm and humid areas because this bacteria needs humid kind of environment to grow or multiply fast and causes infection. Warm weather plays in important role to cause this disease. Other than weather, patient needs to adopt some changes in their life style. Like they should keep their self cleaning regular because poor hygiene contributes to cause this disease. Poor cleaning conditions and poor hygiene and wetting of skin around mouth may lead to this disease. Bursting of fluid out of blisters or nasal discharge can cause this disease to other parts of body on direct contact.
These fluid transfer causative bacteria to other parts of body and lead to appearance of symptoms of infantigo. Kids under the age of two years are widely affected by this disease and that's why it is also known as school rash. Preschool kids are the main victim. In school when kids with Infantigo touch other normal and healthy kids, transfer bacteria which start spreading on the skin of other kid. School going kids should wash their hands with an anti bacterial soap to avoid spreading of the disease. The causative bacteria may also present in the these fluid. So mother's should avoid direct contact with runny nose and use some sort of cloth to clean it.
It can also spread via changing diaper of baby and changing clothes. So mother's should avoid direct contact with all this stuff to avoid infection. All of the above mentioned causes are the most expected causes of infantigo. The basic cause is the bacterial spread I.e. streptococcus and staphylococcus bacteria. According to the root cause, the treatment include use of antibiotics only. Because antibiotics are active against infections occurring in body. Antibiotics are selected according to their spectrum of action and their duration is also decided. Antibiotics helps to treat this disease fast.
Infantigo is also termed as infintigo, infatigo, infentigo, enfantago, infantago, infitigo, infintago, school sores.
School Sores
The term "school sores" is derived from the fact that infantigo is prevalent among school-going children due to their close contact in classrooms and playgrounds. The infection spreads easily through direct contact, leading to its association with educational institutions.
Infintigo
Infintigo is a misspelling of infantigo, but it is sometimes used interchangeably. Such misspellings might have occurred due to phonetic similarities or typographical errors.
Infatigo
Similar to infintigo, infatigo is another variant of infantigo that results from inadvertent misspellings. The presence of multiple names can sometimes lead to confusion, but they all refer to the same skin condition.
Infentigo
Infentigo is yet another name for infantigo, and it likely stems from regional or dialectal differences in pronunciation and spelling.
Enfantago
The term "enfantago" might have originated from languages where "e" is used as a prefix to indicate "in" or "on," thereby referring to a condition that affects infants. However, enfantago refers to the same condition as infantigo.
Infantago
Infantago is another variation of the Infantigo, probably influenced by regional linguistic nuances or colloquial usage.
Infitigo
Infitigo is another term occasionally used for infantigo, potentially emerging from similar linguistic alterations.
Infintago
The name "infintago" is yet another variation of the term Infintago, reflecting the diversity of regional nomenclature for the same condition.