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Oozing crusting skin lesions
Oozing crusting skin lesions are the result of inflammation or infection of the skin.
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
16 year experience in family medicine
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A member asked:
My baby has oozing, crusting skin lesions. Should I cover them or leave them open?
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A 16-year old female asked:
Hi I have a really bad sunburn on my fore head and it is now oozing on its own with a clear fluid and crusting over a yellow color. is this bad?
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A member asked about a 19-year old female:
3 painful bumps on my pernium. Not blisters, oozing, or cauliflower like, not crusting or scabbing, or forming a head, burns during urination?
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A 35-year old female asked:
I have sever headaches one side of my head is larger from swellingmy scalp started oosing a sticky substance then crusted over and then hair fell out?
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A 17-year old female asked:
I had a pimple on my chin and I went to pop it and my skin peeled off on top of it, now it hurts, and clear stuff keeps oozing out of it, what can I d?
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A 47-year old female asked:
My 6 yr old son hit his head on the table corner. He seems fine just a 1cm cut on the side of his head. Does he need stitches? Wound is oozing a little bloo.
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A 20-year old male asked:
Very Small flesh colored bumps showed around the head of penis no where else about 4mths ago no pain no oozing entire penis was dry for a week or 2 ?
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A 38-year old female asked:
13yr/ son stepped on a colour pencil 2 days ago.made a 5mm hole punctured through to inner skin layer. tried to rinse out the debris but still oozing the colour from the pencil/ also cm wide discolouration around puncture. pain is reasonable?
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A 62-year old male asked:
I severely fractured my calceneus 10 years ago. There is a little hole in the wound that never healed and it oozes 24/7.i've been for surgery multiple times but a month or 2 after the operation the oozing lituraly burst thru the skin again. Painfull?
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A 65-year old female asked:
Oozing dry skin on my legs, how can I clear it up?
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A member asked about a male:
Theres an itchy pus blister on my child's head that's oozing clear pus what can I use??
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A female asked:
I popped huge pimple cluster on chin now it's open sore like a crater oozing the skin fell right off?
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A 24-year old female asked about a male:
this terrible oozing, knot- looking thing on the back of his head. He suffers from eczema but this looks totally different. Tried everything. Help!
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A 18-year old male asked about a 16-year old male:
My friend who skateboards had a nasty wipeout on the ground with their face....Now it is oozing green puss where the skin came off what should he do?
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A male asked:
My head is swollen and kinda oozing clear thick stuff and I have diarea. are these also systems of cat scratch fever?
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A 43-year old female asked:
Friend on Stafcure LZ for 4 days now for wound on toe.Has diabetes too.The oozing stopped & skin hard but a lil black. Does it mean its healing.Help.
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A 28-year old asked:
My 7 week old had his belly button silver nitrated because of oozing after his cord fell off. Now the skin is coming off and oozing worse. What to do?
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A 33-year old female asked:
My toe is really itchy. Skin coming off exposing flesh. Oozing fluid.
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A 45-year old female asked:
I have a skin tag at my waistline that has become very swollen and painful over the past two weeks and is now oozing pus, red around it and blackened.
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A female asked:
Itchy scalp in a small section near top of head, scratched before felt a scab-like thing forming and it let out little bit of clear fluid-not oozing?
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A 41-year old female asked:
Sore that doesn't heal , is oozing clear liquid , has some pus and bleeds some, what is it, how to treat it.It is in a skin fold keeps forming moistur?
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A female asked:
I have skin on my nose that keeps oozing, what could it be? About every 3 or 4 months i get a patch of skin on my nose that starts to ooz badly, it's not always the exact same area of skin, it oozes clear liquid and then it seems to kind of blister and th
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A 22-year old male asked:
I lost my fingernail 3 weeks ago, when can I swim again? And how long should I keep wrapping it and applying disinfectant ointment? My fingernail bed now has rough skin on top and it's not so sensitive anymore. There's been no oozing, redness, etc.?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Is slight yellowing of extraction site and light yellow oozing normal 3 days after tooth extraction? Most oozing occurs when I sleep ,head elevated.
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A member asked:
My husband has dry scalp on top of his head it is now oozing a clear liquid. And i his doc. Thinks its from not wearing a hat during the summer. It itches and he keeps irritating it
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A 18-year old female asked:
Used undiluted Dettol on chin I had a huge pimple oozing out sebum and I thought applying Dettol would stop the germs from spreading and infecting the area but now there is a big brown patch on my chin? Ps: skin is peeling and new skin is burning?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Red skin with a silver or scaly texture appeared behind my ear. It's not itchy, oozing, painful or noticeable. I only saw it when looking in a mirror.
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A 57-year old female asked:
I applied Neosporin to an incision per my doctors instruction. I now have red burning skin that has small oozing blisters. Is there something I can do?
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A 73-year old female asked:
Large painful sebaceous cyst oozing. Skin Dr. said continue Cefdinir dont squeeze it. Removal is scheduled 5/11. Chance it could go septic. Told me use ice packs to take down pain/redness. What else can I do, this scares me. I live alone?
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A 50-year old female asked about a female:
My son's big toe nail has separated slightly from the skin and is smelly and oozing. The nail was quite bruise, but is now yellowish.
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