Have you ever heard of periorbital cellulitis?!
Question: Do you know anyone with this affliction?
Answers: Do you know anyone with this affliction?
I have seen periorbital cellulitis before in a child with Hemophilus influenzae type B.
Periorbital cellulitis is an infection of the superficial skin around the eye and is caused by: 1) infection as a result of local trauma including insect bites; 2) infection as a result of spread from nearby structures; 3) iInfections secondary to hematogenous spread during bacteremia due to nasopharyngeal pathogens; and 4) infections secondary to sinusitis causing venous and lymphatic congestion.
Periorbital cellulitis is mostly found in children less than 36 months of age.
It is caused by Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococci) when associated with trauma, otherwise by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Before the HiB vaccine became available, it was mostly caused by H influenzae type b.
There are other unusual organisms that can be associated with this.
In the emergency department, adult patients will most likely be discharged as outpatients and treated with oral antibiotics. Children will most likely be admitted to the hospital, started on intravenous antibiotics, and once clinical improvement is noted, switched to oral antibiotics.
Hope this helps!
never heard of it,
Periorbital cellulitis is an infection of the soft tissues around the eye. (The orbit is the eye socket itself.) It is usually caused by an infection spreading from the membrane covering the outer part of the eye -- conjunctivitis (pink eye) (the eyeball itself is rarely the site of an infection) -- or from the nose and throat (a bacterial infection of the nose or the sinuses; the latter is called sinusitis).
you can get cellulitis practically any part of the body.. its painful and it takes a while to heal but is not cantagious.. you can get fever from it or localized redness and heat on affected site... i have seen it many times at work at a hospital... even cellulitis of the scrotum!! but mostly cellulitis of the lower extremities.