How long can cellulitus go undected?

Cellulitis: Cellulitis generally refers to infection of skin and underlying tissue. It manifests as redness, swelling and pain that is usually easy for your doctor to detect on examination. If undetected or untreated the infection can become very serious.

Hours: Generally the bodies response to the cellulitis causes symptoms that will alert you to that something is going on in the area infected.

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.