Impetigo? won't clear

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I have had this on my face since September. I think it's impetigo but it hasn't spread which I would expect to be everywhere by now. I have tried fucidin, a course of oral antibiotics, tcp, spot treatment. It improved with the oral antibiotics but has never gone away completely
Looks like tiny white head but very soft, liquid inside, followed by dry flaky skin around it, which last a long time.
Can anybody offer any advice? Ideas of what it might be, remedies? It's only a small patch but getting me down.

Hi there,

Whereabouts on the face is it? Is it itchy? I had something like this around and under my nose. It was some sort of dermatitis. Sorry cant remember exact name of it but it sounds like how you described above. It took AGES to clear with oral antibiotics (6 weeks). One of our kids has impetigo at the moment and hers are very weepy sores - around her belly button and two tiny ones on the face. I would maybe go back to the doctor.

Hi, it's on my chin, it's infuriating, it nearly clears but not completely. Yes, I cancelled a GP appointment last week because it looked so much better, but then as all the dry flaky bits came away , I was able to see more of it.
I am trying to be much more careful with hygiene, and not touching it.
Thanks for your reply.

My daughter has this, but by her nose. We've used Fucidin, and it hasn't cleared very well, been like his for two weeks now.
I'm taking her to docs as soon as it opens after xmas, as think she needs antibiotics. But will watch this thread go ideas.

DS2 had this on and off for almost a year when he was little. We had numerous courses of antibiotics and creams, which almost cleared it but then it would come back again.

In the end he was seen by a dermatologist who said it was atopic excema which was getting infected and prescribed a protopic cream. It worked in less than 10 days and he has been clear ever since.

If you have had lots of treatment to no effect, it might be worth asking your GP about protopic cream to see if that's an option for you? Obviously it might be something completely different that you have but no harm in asking.

My dd had this for a long teime until the hospital swabbed her nose and she had something like streppacoccus (sp!) bacteria in her nose that meant it kept re-infecting her chin. She had cream to put up her nose - can't remember what it was called. I'd get to your drs again after xmas.

I am a 45 year old lady and have just been told I have impetigo, I thought this was a infection kids got it and those with hygience probs - I am a very clean person and hope this clears up quickly as its very sore!