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Common symptoms of skin infections may include:
- Redness, warmth, and pain around the wound
- Pus (a smelly, yellow fluid coming from the wound)
- Fever
See your doctor if you have any of these symptoms and they don’t go away within three to five days of treating them yourself.
To check for infection, your doctor may scrape some material from the affected area of skin. He or she will look at it under a microscope or send it to a lab. The results can tell your doctor what type of infection you have, so that he or she can prescribe the right treatment.
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