When the skin breaks and crusts into hard lumps, it is considered to be secondary infection, or the wound has pseudo-healing, hyperplastic scar, etc. Drug treatment and surgical treatment should be taken in conjunction with the cause of the disease.
1. Secondary infection: related to improper care, when pathogenic bacteria invade the wound and cause inflammatory reaction, it will lead to scabs and hard lumps on the skin. The wound can be scrubbed with iodophor or with hydrogen peroxide solution, and then topical mupirocin ointment and fusidic acid ointment can be applied.
2. False healing: mainly refers to the wound is not completely healed, subcutaneous pus effusion formation. At present, it is necessary to incise and drain the wound as soon as possible, clean up the purulent secretion, and then apply iodophor and mupirocin ointment.
3. Proliferative scar: mainly due to excessive proliferation of connective tissues in the late healing process, can first apply silicone gel and other drugs to prevent further development of the scar, followed by local intradermal injection of trimethoprim and other drugs.
If the skin breaks into crusts and hard lumps, if it does not go away, avoid touching it with your hands, we suggest you go to the hospital in time to find out the cause and treat the symptoms, and the above medicines need to be used according to the doctor’s instructions.