Looking After Your Child's Skin & Treating Skin Infections

Looking After Your Child's Skin & Treating Skin Infections

A 24 page booklet with information, diagrams and photos about looking after your child's skin and treating skin infections.

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A guide for parents and families 

Check this booklet developed by Workbase Education Trust as part of a research project funded by the Ministry of Health. 

Looking after your child's skin and treating skin infections (PDF, 5.9MB)

Information includes 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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Check KidsHealth's section on skin problems and skin care

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This page last reviewed 21 June 2022.

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