What’s this on DS’s finger?

[Luckymummy22]

Noticed 3 year olds finger has a white lump with red round about it tonight.

He does have his fingers in his mouth constantly so wondering if it could be infected?

Will pop to pharmacist tomorrow to get advice but just wondered if anyone had any clues

Not best pic as he wasn’t for staying still at all!!

Yes, that looks infected.

Ouch. Infected for sure.

Can he tolerate a hottish flannel on it?

My DD had exactly the same thing. Soaking it in warm, salt water a few times sorted it out.

DD stopped putting her fingers in her mouth after it cleared up thankfully.

Infection around his nail. My ds gets them sometimes as he bites them. Dr said to soak the finger in as hot a bowl of salty water as he can tolerate. You can actually see the pus leeking out when you do it, it's quite satisfying!

Infection. Probably pulled skin by nail and it's got infected (very common)

Whitlow

Use either hot salted water or magnesium sulphate.

Looks like a paronychea to me. You could try magnesium sulphate to draw the pus to the surface? Worst case scenario - it'll need draining.

it is a whitlow.
Pharmacist will be able to help.

Thanks everyone.
He’s actually got Fucidic acid cream at the moment for sore lips.
I’m wondering whether I should put a little of that on?
Otherwise I think I have got some magnesium sulphate somewhere. He’s in bed at moment so can’t soak his finger but will ‘try’ and do that in the morning.

Whitlow. Paronychia would be under the nail.

Hot flannel, mag sulph from the chemist tomorrow

I’ll get advice tomorrow.

He had scarlet fever a couple of weeks ago (ab’s finished 11 days or so ago) so wondering if I need to make a trip to GP.

I don’t necessarily think it’s linked though!!

Try the soaking first, if it's going to work it works quite quickly.

You beat me to it, but I was going to recommend fucidic cream for it. Both my DM and DS get whitlows from biting their nails and this is what the dr has prescribed them in the past.

Well it’s got worse overnight! Think it might be Paronychia. Going to give GP a phone this morning. Just hope they can get to work!!!

Couldn’t be a cold sore could it? DS got one on his finger (and did is stop him biting his nails - did is heck).

Defo paronychia. May need anti biotics. I recommend soaking in warm salty water mean time

Trying to soak it at the moment. It burst just before that so now just very red.

You could get him some warm salty or soapy water in a basin to play with? He could wash his plastic toys or something, probably would help draw anything out of the sore finger.

I've had them a few times, first one had to be drained (walk-in clinic), others have been prescribed antibiotics but have burst before then.