Impetigo
Adults and children aged 1 year and over.
Impetigo starts with red sores or blisters, but the redness may be harder to see in brown and black skin. The sores or blisters quickly burst and leave crusty, golden-brown patches. The patches can:
- Look a bit like cornflakes stuck to your skin
- Get bigger
- Spread to other parts of your body
- Be itchy
- Sometimes be painful