It was noticed three weeks ago and its on the right side of her belly button. It looked just like a mosquito bite so I kept her from scratching and put a cream on it to help with the itching. It started to go away then started getting irritated and bigger, this time I decided to put cream on it and keep a band aid over it because maybe she was itching the area when we weren't looking. A couple of days ago I checked it only to find that it had formed a little knot under the skin and was red once again.
I did some research and MRSA, Staph, infected mosquito bite, sebaceous cyst or boil were the things that seemed to be what was going on. I immediately called her pediatrician and scheduled an appointment for the next day and applied ointment and put a band aid over it until the time of the appointment.
The doctor came in and after talking to Chy for a little bit about her birthday party she finally had a look and this is what she said:
"Well it doesn't not look like MRSA, staph or a boil because it is not draining and there is no point to it (meaning a red pointy dot)"
"It looks to me like an infected mosquito bite"
"it can also be a sebaceous cyst the size of a dime"
With that we were headed back home with an antibiotic prescription and an antibacterial bar of soap.
A followup appointment has been scheduled to go back in 10 days and see if its smaller or better yet gone.
putting medicine on her boo boo
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