The mother of a young teen brings the child to the emergency department for treatment of cellulitis that occurred after the child picked scabs from healing pimples
The mother is scolding the child for eating too many oily foods that caused the cellulitis. The nurse plans teaching which of the following to this family? 1. Consumption of oily foods poses an increased risk for cellulitis.
2. Foods such as chocolate and potato chips do not cause pimples or cellulitis.
3. Antibiotics are the best way to prevent cellulitis.
4. Popping the pimples spreads the germs over the face.
2. Foods such as chocolate and potato chips do not cause pimples or cellulitis.
Rationale:
Studies have shown that foods do not cause acne and, therefore, cellulitis. Antibiotics are the best way to treat, not prevent, cellulitis. Popping pimples drives the infection deeper into the skin and may cause more serious infections.
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