What does cellulitis look like?

Red angry: Painful skin. If you touch it, it is warm and tender as well.

Spreading redness: Cellilitis is technically an inflammatory process of the skin most commonly due to infection. It looks like a rapidly enlarging area of redness, warmth, tenderness, and swelling.

What's the cause ?: Cellulitis is basically a visible inflammation (itis) of the skin and soft tissues (red, hot, swollen and tender) . It can be caused by many things including sunburn (radiation), trauma (sprained ankle) or poor vein circulation (stasis dermatitis). It need not be caused by bacteria. If you have repeated episodes of this, get to a wound care or vascular specialist, the diagnoses you have is wrong.