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Please provide a tip on how to ask your doctor about cellulitis.

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Dr. Sheila Calderon answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Ignore: Draw a line on your skin where the redness stops so you can follow it shrinking as it gets better.

Answered 3/7/2014

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Dr. Ryan Phasouk answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Ignore: Do follow with your doctor if symptoms have not improved after 48 hours.

Answered 3/30/2014

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Ignore: Just ask so you can get the best results.

Answered 7/7/2014

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Ignore: If it's not painful and tender, if it itches, if there is no fever, if WBC's normal: not cellulitis.

Answered 1/18/2019

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Dr. Peter Wiggin answered

Specializes in Wound care

Ignore: Any red, warm swollen area should be visually inspected by your doctor. Expose the area to observed.

Answered 5/12/2016

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