Scalded Skin Syndrom

[Mollydolly124]

Hello All,
My little boy who is 1 on Wednesday has Scalded Skin Syndrom.

He's had it for about 2 months now and has been in hospital with it on a drip for 4 days and then has been at home on anti bi's for about 6 weeks!!

Cycle after cycle it just keeps coming back!! My GP surgery know nothing about it and we have now been given an appointment at the hospital for the 16th May.

The docs wont give me anymore Anti Bi's and already I can see the 7th cycle just about to start - Poor little man!!

Does anyone have any knowledge of this skin infection, advice??

How do we get rid of it because Anti bi's aint working?

What causes it?? Someone has said it's because I breastfeed!! OMG!!! He's loves BF and wont take a bottle so theres no giving that up!!

Info very muchly appreaciated.

Many thanks

Katie

Sorry, no advice or experience. Sounds awful though. Hope he gets better soon. I had a look on Google and it's not BF that causes it - it's a staphylococcus bacteria that causes it. However, the articles I read imply that it should clear up after 7-10 days, so it seems like the referral is a good thing. If he's bad before then, take him to A&E at some point as they should have an on-call paed available.