Question 1

is cellulitis serious?

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Cellulitis is severe: Cellulitis is an infection. If you are healthy, the infection usually will improve once treatment begins. However, if neglected it can be serious and can spread systemically. 
Go see hour doctor  or other health professional and get an antibiotic  for the infection.

Question 2

can you die from cellulitis?

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Rarely: The infection in severe cases can spread causing sepsis. It is best to treat early with antibiotics so that infection resolves and does cause complications such as scarring, color change or systemic effects.

Question 3

any ways to cure cellulitis?

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Antibiotics: Antibiotics are used to treat cellulitis.

Question 4

what are the tests for cellulitis?

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No tests: There are no tests for cellulitis.  It's a clinical diagnosis, which means it's based on the symptoms and the physical examination findings.

Question 5

what sort of disease is cellulitis?

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Skin disorder: Redness and swelling of the skin, commonly infectious in origin.

Question 6

what are the symptoms of cellulitis?

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Redness swelling pai: Cellulitis causes pain, redness, swelling, warmth and loss of function of the affected area.  There may be fever, local discharge and in severe cases, abscess formation and tissue necrosis.  Rarely cellulitis causes rapid necrosis, commonly known as flesh eating bacterial infection.

Question 7

what are the concerns with having cellulitis?

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Spreading: Cellulitis, or skin infection, concerns us when it takes longer than 7 days to improve, or gets worse: spreading across more skin or going deeper into your blood. Watch out for increased pain, redness, red streaks, fever/chills, feeling bleah (malaise).

Question 8

what are the symptoms of cellulitis and signs?

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Redness and swelling: Redness, swelling, edema, increased warmth, fever of the skin.

Question 9

what might happen if i dont get cellulitis treated?

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Worsening infection: Cellulitis is a skin infection. Normally oral antibiotics will cure the infection. If the infection is left untreated the infection cold worsen and spread internally into the blood stream. A blood stream infection would then require hospitalization for intravenous antibiotics.Blood stream infections are potentially fatal.

Question 10

what are the chances of cellulitis recurring once you had it?

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See below: Cellulitis can commonly occur after having some kind of skin trauma (cut, bite, etc).  Having cellulitis once does not predispose you to getting it again.  But you are at risk of getting it with any skin trauma.

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