Impetigo: Can treatment wait until Monday?

[expatkat]

Ds came up with a sore this morning, which I thought at first was a cold sore until, as the day progressed, it got rapidly bigger and seemed to contain lots of little blisters which seeped a yellow fluid. Impetigo, deffo.

Now it's Friday night. Can I wait til Monday to take him to the GP for treatment? Or do I need to get this taken care this weekend, somehow, someway. Would it be OTT to take him to casualty at the weekend?

Also, he is most certainly allergic to penicillin. Does anyone know if it's a penicillin-derived antibiotic that is generally used to treat impetigo? Many thanks!

Could you not ring your surgery tomorrow or the out of hours number. Alternatively NHS Direct are brilliant for that kind of thing. I have rung them lots of times.

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is there a walk in clinic near you at all? would be worth taking him down there. its extremely infectious isnt it, so needs to be treated asap.

Thanks, everyone.

I rang our surgery, left a message with the answering service, was rung back by a doctor an hour or so later, and was given an appointment at an out-of-hours clinic.

The doctor at the clinic said I did well to get this looked at immediately as it's highly contagious (as misdee said). Unfortunately, ds is allergic to penicillin, so he has to have something that isn't the usual Fucidin cream--and I've found it impossible to find this other cream (neomycin) at ANY pharmacy. Will have to keep looking. . .

Thanks again for the suggestions.

they should be able to order in quickly tho shouldnt they? if i took perscriptions in early enough some chemist would have the items by the same afternoon or following morning.