Is this a tonight emergency or can it wait to tomorrow?

[Sugarplumfairy34]

A bit of background, 4 Yr old came home last Sunday from dad's, gunky knee, cleaned, washed and dressed. Monday it popped, went to MIU confirmed he had something stuck in it. They used Duoderm and told us to come back Thursday. Forward to Thursday, they have confirmed everything is out and it should all scab over and be fine etc. However since Friday morning, these spots have started to appear. Some blister like, some puss filled. Its gotten warm over the last 24hr also. He complains it stings, I've been cleaning with a warm flannel etc. Hes currently sound asleep for the first time in days, so don't wanna disturb if I dont have to. The green line is so I can monitor whether its spreading also. The other imagine is thursday evening after the dressing came off.

They've also taken a swab, and will see if anything comes back on that. They've covered it and I have to change it every 12 hours

If a wound is not cleaned promptly then it is neglect. No-one has mentioned how long before setting off home the damage was done or how long the journey home was. It should at least have been washed. Stopping contact would be an over-reaction but reminding Dad to wash dirt out is not.

Do you know how the wound occurred? Is it possible that it was actually a sting or bite?

A physio here. Looks infected to me. I would go to ER ASAP.

It was cleaned, after he did it on the Thurs, it was fine and dad said he noticed how it was when he sat him down for dinner on the Sunday. My loving 4 year old doesn't stop, so I can so picture this being the case. Dad then tried to assess and ds told him no. He then bought him home an hr later and I sorted it. There is no blame game here and no one is at fault, he's just had a string of bad luck after simply falling over and grazing his knee, just like so many other 4 year olds do.

He is fine, confirmed he unfortunately has a skin infection. We have a care plan with him, ds has seizures and a temp can trigger them so hospital are being super careful. Hes gone to dad's this afternoon and he will care and administer first dose of meds.

Thank you for all those who took time to have a look. Apart from discomfort he's his happy bouncy self. Take care all x

This doesn't look like a wound to me at all. There's no sign of trauma, broken skin etc around the little pearly blisters, which would definitely be expected if, for instance, he'd fallen onto gravel or I dunno, knelt on a patch of spiky plants.

I think, for my money and I'm not a dermatologist, it might be something like molluscum contagiosum.

Sorry, then I RTFT and see a lot of other posters suggested this! I don't know if it responds to ABs, but obviously he's been seen by professionals now and diagnosed, and treated, which is great.
Hope he feels better soon.

if these pus there is a infection maybe viral
infection can come from many causes had a friend was sick from polio
cut his leg on rose thorn bunny fur stuck

Hope they get him sorted out, my skin comes up a bit like that with certain plaster adhesives. Really quick too, we are maybe 15min from our GP’s, a plaster from a blood test caused my arm to be bright red and starting to be blistering like this from wrist to mid bicep by the time I’d driven home. Took a good while to go down too, always say no to plasters now!

Glad to hear he’s been seen and he’s okay. You must be relieved! X