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What Is The Best Treatment To Encourage Healing Of Slowly Expanding Ulcers?
This was the size of a pinhead 3 weeks ago. It’s NOT infected. It’s been covered with a large hydrocolloidal bandage since it emerged. I wiped it with chlorhexidine, dotted with iodine, then covered in clobetasol propionate. Applied the bandage over the wound. With each bandage change, it’s growing, not healing. This is just over an inch long, above my ankle, on my shin. It’s slowly growing under the bandage with steroid cream on it. 🤷🏻♀️
The early clobetasol treatment was preventing… read more
These lesions not only look horrific but can hurt like a skinned knee when you were a kiddo. If I open or pull back a bandage or the scab covering a lesion mine look just like this photo. Just horrible is my only description. Other than very alarming to anyone not familiar with this disease. They think you might be contagious and are afraid of what this is. 😢 I hope you heal quickly. Hope.
Hi Kimberly ~ You are doing a perfect action, but for a different stage of a PN lesion.
You need Mupirocin ointment for that lesion. I had one on my belly that did the same thing, growing quickly and nothing else helped it, but Mupirocin ointment. Put some of that on (if your provider did not provide this Rx, ask them for it), and you can cover with the hydrocolloid bandage after, too.
It sounds like you're dealing with a challenging situation. Here are some general tips for managing prurigo nodularis (PN) and promoting healing, based on my knowledge base:
1. Prevent Scratching
- Cover the affected area with long pants or long-sleeved shirts.
- Use bandages to cover itchy skin areas.
- Keep Show Full Answer
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