Call Doctor or Seek Care Now
- Spreading red area or streak with fever
- Spreading red area or streak that's very large
- Your child looks or acts very sick
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Contact Doctor Within 24 Hours
- Spreading red area or streak, but no fever
- Severe past allergic reaction to lake swimming that needed oral steroids
- You think your child needs to be seen
Contact Doctor During Office Hours
- Severe itching not better after 24 hours of using steroid cream
- Scab that looks infected (drains pus or gets bigger). Care Advice: apply an antibiotic ointment 3 times per day until seen.
- Swimmer's itch lasts more than 2 weeks
- You have other questions or concerns
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Self Care at Home
- Swimmer's itch suspected. (Itchy rash that starts within 2 hours of being in a lake or ocean)
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