Just how infectious is impetigo?

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I got bitten and scratched at work the other day, the scratches broke my skin but then a child who has been diagnosed with impetigo touched the scratches with his impetigo-y skin.

I'm going to get it aren't I ?

I'm on day 3 after the scratches and they are beginning to look yellowy.

It's extremely infectious, I'm afraid. Worth seeing a GP on Monday.

it popped up lie yellow boils on me. DD2 had it and passed it on. I scratched my belly and ended with it on my belly...then because i was curled up at night with my leg on my belly it passed onto my leg...oh nightmare

DD had this around a grazed knee in the summer. GP said that it was extremely contagious ..until she had been antibiotics for 24 hours, and then it's harmless.
I guess if the child has been diagnosed they are also on antibiotics.

GaH! I guessed as much! Oh how I love working with children, last term it was ringworm, often it's nits but impetigo is a first for me.

Luckily I have a GP appointment Monday am.

No, he started AB's that evening.

Have a google see what to expect I had it all up my face too. was really embarrasing. DD2 had it all over and up her nose.

eek. round here no kid is allowed anywhere with impetigo until it's stopped weeping etc.
ds1 had it on his chin. revolting.
you won't be able to go to work.

No, impetigo is on the list of infections we exclude but the setting I work in means it's not always straightforward to get a child with an infection sent home.

yuk. can understand that though.
won't be so difficult to exclude you though lol.

Is it in a place that you can cover with a plaster so that it doesn't spread further over you?

Very infective!!Get ye to a doctor.

2 days of exculsion sounds like bliss to me, no biting, no screaming, no shrieking, no regurgitaing food (and that's just teh staff ...bliss.

Yes, I can cover it with a dressing.

Fingers crossed it doesn't spread to my face though

Very very infectious!
The Dr's receptionist siezed my baby when she saw her hurled her at the nurse and said oh dear, and they wrote out an antibiotics prescription faster then you could believe on the NHS!

no touching face at all! wear gloves to bed if the scratches are on your hands, because you'll do it in your sleep lol.

I didnt go to doctors, i said what dd had over the phone and they left a presciption at the reception for me.

I had it on my eye once, took two lots of antibiotics for it to go. Luckily, we all have our own towels and no one else caught it.