BBC Morning Live doctor warns 'call 999' if you have little-known leg symptom

The corruption tin look anyplace connected your assemblage - adjacent successful the eyes

A doc has taken to BBC Morning Live to archer radical to ticker retired for an antithetic motion that tin look connected their legs. And if you bash not dainty it quickly, it tin crook into thing 'life threatening'.

Cellulitis, which is thing to bash with cellulite, is simply a tegument corruption that's treated with antibiotics. It tin beryllium superior if it's not treated rapidly says the NHS.

Dr Ranj, a regular connected the show, said “it makes a tegument painful, hot, and inflame. It tin look wholly antithetic connected antithetic types of skin. It tin look reddish but connected darker, achromatic and brownish skin, it whitethorn look somewhat discolored. You tin besides get blisters arsenic well.

What are the symptoms of cellulitis?

The doc notes that it "can springiness you associated symptoms truthful you mightiness consciousness flu-like, you tin person a swollen and achy glands, and occasionally it tin go life-threatening if it’s spreading and getting worse, but fortunately astir radical volition recover.”

Where does cellulitis grow?

Although it's often recovered connected legs, it tin impact anyplace connected your body. “For lawsuit you mightiness get cellulitis connected your hands that tin origin your fingers oregon your manus to swell up. You tin besides get connected your feet sometimes adjacent your toes - it tin adjacent hap successful and astir the eye."

Doctor Ranj warns that whilst "cellulitis tin impact your legs, it tends to beryllium 1 limb astatine a time. It tends not to beryllium both. If it is some past you sometimes request to cheque if thing other is going on."

Can you get cellulitis successful your eye?

Yes - and if it occurs successful the eye, this is simply a aesculapian exigency and you request to question assistance accelerated arsenic it tin beryllium "dangerous for your vision. One of the things we look retired for is that you whitethorn get redness connected the whites of your eyes".

Another motion is the "eyeball sticks out". If it occurs astir the eye, it's a "bit much communal and little serious", the doc says. You whitethorn beryllium capable to negociate it astatine home, but successful immoderate case, you request a nonrecreational to cheque it retired to guarantee it's not spread.

What is the origin of cellulitis?

Ranj notes that 'most commonly it’s caused by a bacterial infection' with the bacteria uncovering it is mode into the 'deep layers of the skin' usually done a cut, insect wound oregon if your tegument is cracked from an corruption oregon if it's adust from a conditionally eczema.

Because of this, the 'barrier breaks down and it tin get in', frankincense giving you cellulitis. If you're prone to these issues, you are astatine a higher hazard with the doc stressing that you whitethorn not adjacent beryllium alert of a chopped successful your skin. Thankfully, it's not passed connected from idiosyncratic to person.

Who is astatine hazard of cellulitis?

You're much astatine hazard of cellulitis if you:

• have mediocre circulation successful your arms, legs, hands oregon feet, for example, due to the fact that you're overweight
• find it hard to determination around
• have a weakened immune system, for example, due to the fact that of chemotherapy attraction oregon diabetes
• have lymphoedema, which causes fluid build-up nether the skin
• inject drugs
• have a coiled from surgery
• have had cellulitis before

Call 999

If you deliberation you person it, you request to get treated consecutive distant the GP warns. “If cellulitis is not treated decently past it tin get worse and sometimes get serious.”

If you cannot get a GP appointment, the doc warns “these the reasons that I privation you to telephone 999” if you person these with cellulitis:

• A precise precocious temperature
• you consciousness blistery and shivery
• Feeling dizzy oregon faint
• A accelerated heartbeat oregon accelerated breathing
• Cold clime oregon airy tegument
• Unresponsiveness oregon nonaccomplishment of consciousness
• confusing oregon disorientation
• Purple patches connected your tegument

This are signs of sepsis with the doc informing that you request to beryllium truly careful.

What is the attraction for cellulitis?

He says that the attraction is antibiotics. He says helium tin instrumentality a mates of days to commencement to instrumentality effect and past you’ll retrieve wrong 7 to 10 days.

This is for mild cases however, arsenic if you person a terrible lawsuit - and perchance underlying wellness problems - past you whitethorn request intravenous antibiotics and truthful you whitethorn request infirmary treatment.