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Should I Take Fucidin Or Daktacort For Skin Infection On Face?
I suffer from a skin infection on my face.
I think it is caused by a nose infection & have treated it with Fucidin in the past.
|However it keeps recurring & would prefer not to use fucidin as it is an antibiotic.
My GP gace me a prescription for Daktacort & advise me to use it when the condition flared up again
It has now done so I am wondering should I revert to Fucidin or try Daktacort
I think it is caused by a nose infection & have treated it with Fucidin in the past.
|However it keeps recurring & would prefer not to use fucidin as it is an antibiotic.
My GP gace me a prescription for Daktacort & advise me to use it when the condition flared up again
It has now done so I am wondering should I revert to Fucidin or try Daktacort
Mon, 20 Jan 2014
Hi. Thanks for posting your concern at HCM
Fucidin is an antibiotic whereas daktacort is an antifungal. They are entirely different.
I guess you suffer from recurrent bacterial infection as you mentioned that you had used fucidin effectively in the past.
Some people (around 30%) are nasal carriers of staph aureus and are thus prone to recurrent infections around the nose.
If i was your treating doctor i would have asked you to take an oral antibiotic (from the penicillin group) for a week along with topical application of 2% mupirocin ointment to the lesion as well as just inside the nares for 5 days so as to eradicate carrier state.
take care
regards
Fucidin is an antibiotic whereas daktacort is an antifungal. They are entirely different.
I guess you suffer from recurrent bacterial infection as you mentioned that you had used fucidin effectively in the past.
Some people (around 30%) are nasal carriers of staph aureus and are thus prone to recurrent infections around the nose.
If i was your treating doctor i would have asked you to take an oral antibiotic (from the penicillin group) for a week along with topical application of 2% mupirocin ointment to the lesion as well as just inside the nares for 5 days so as to eradicate carrier state.
take care
regards
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