I’m really worried about my sons health, he is autistic and has constant skin infections.
Literally something wrong every few weeks - sometimes every week.
Today we have a massive toe blister which came up instantly. It needs to be drained,‘it’s the size of a 5p piece and he’s a very small 8 yo so it’s huge between his toes.
A couple of days ago he had some groin infection and is on antibiotics.
He suffers from regular impetigo, whitlows, fungal infections, athletes foot, small cut which become boils etc
Any cut gets infected
We’re clean people, he is well cared for and showers daily. We eat properly as well, his clothes are washed - and ironed - I’ve never understood the root cause of these problems
At one point on an Online doctors appointment, I asked why this is so frequent and could it be a sign of anything more systemic and they suggested diabetes which can sometimes present as repeated infections. But he has no other sign at all of it.
Because it’s so hard to get doctors appointments now, I tend to clean anything with hydrogen peroxide and dab with iodine enough to prevent things becoming infected.
Because no bugger ever calls me about my e consults, i end up firefighting and just going through a private doctor each time which means that there is no real continuity of care
Could these infections be linked to his autism? Does anybody know? What am I supposed to do? Is it possible to ask for a referral to .... somebody ? We have private insurance coming out of our ears biy I just don’t know where to turn.