Looking after your child's skin and treating skin infections
Looking after your child's skin and treating skin infections
A 24 page booklet with information, diagrams and photos about looking after your child's skin and treating skin infections.
A 24 page booklet (PDF, 5.9MB) - Looking after your child's skin and treating skin infections. Information including diagrams and photos under the following headings:
- things that help keep your child's skin healthy
- what causes skin infections?
- how to clean infected skin
- things you could ask your child's doctor or nurse
- washing and drying hands
- information about a number of skin conditions (boils, cellulitis, cuts, scratches and grazes, eczema, impetigo, insect bites, ring worm and scabies)
- how to check skin infections
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This page last reviewed 15 April 2019.
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