Some Steps to Practice Periorbital Cellulitis Treatment
The periorbital cellulitis can be recognized with some signs such as inflammation and redness around the eye with another symptoms of swollen at the lower and upper eyelids with the heat. More further, the fever may also be present.
Cellulitis is actually an infection of the soft tissue. This can be happen at the muscle and fat tissue. Some bacterias are the cause of it such as Haemophilus Influenzae, Streptococcus Pyogenes and the Staphylococcus Aureus. You should becareful whenever you have cut or scratch, that those bacterias can easily infected it. An infection at the sinuses might be also become the reason that later spread through the eye sockets. The spreading phase happen in a very quick time with the result of permanent vision damage when the periorbital cellulitis enhanced into orbital cellulitis.
Diagnosing can be performed by checking the drainage of the area, doing CAT scan or x-ray and blood tests. When you thought that you have periorbital cellulitis, you have to see the doctor quickly. The very clear sign is the inflammation and redness around the eye sockets. This kind of pain might be rapidly spread also felt painful and hot. There are some systemic situations that can be followed such as Neutropenia, nasal polyposis, asthma, and varicella.
There are some ways to give periorbital cellulitis treatment such as with oral antibiotics. Intravenous antibiotics can be used if the inflammation had spread so far to be solved with oral antibiotics. When it happened at severe condition, hospitalization definitely necessary. Sometimes surgery also required to absorb the abscesses caused by the cellulitis until it finally clean.
The child that suffers from orbital cellulitis needs to have periorbital cellulitis treatment and hospitalized without any delay. Antibiotics being used for stopping the spread of the infection and reduce the damage to the optic nerve, which is actually transmits viewed images to the brain. At some severe conditions, there are symptoms that happen at the optic nerve damage of infection that lead to sinus cavities near the brain such as papilledema or the swelling of the optic disk at the place where the optic nerve enters the eye, the loss of visual acuity, impaired response of such stimulus or the pupil to a light and very limited ability to move the eye. Before all those happen, you better go see the doctor when you reach the phase of red eye with a bit inflammation.