Warm soaks, bed rest, keep part elevated Dicloxacillin, Erythromycin, or Velosef 500mg QID for 10 days If not improved may need IV antibiotics Facial cellulitis, common around the eye, requires hospitalization and IV antibiotics. A self-limited mild, scaly, erythematous skin eruption occurring primarily in adolescents and young adults, lasting about 5 to 8 weeks. Oval papules and plaques with a delicate scar near the border of the lesions. Psoriasis is a chronic disease characterized by over production of new skin. Instead of taking 19 days to replicate it takes only 1.5 days causing the skin to thicken forming the classic silver scale.
Lesions have an irregular shape with a sharp border and a red base topped by a silver scale.
The scalp, elbows, knees, groin, and feet are more commonly involved. Erythematous plaques covered with silvery scales. The most important lab test in the diagnosis of tinea is the potassium hydroxide or KOH preparation. The KOH dissolves normal cellwalls leaving the fungal cells visible, appearing as hyphae and spores when viewed under low power. A KOH PREP taken from the underside of the roof of the vesicle or pustule will reveal fungal hyphae.