People with chronic illnesses like diabetes may also be at increased risk for skin infections. Ensure you treat these underlying risk factors, along with the cellulitis, to prevent it from returning.

Generalized reduction in the body’s immunity Any condition that reduces the body’s ability to fight infection increases the risk of cellulitis e.g. in diabetes and in people who take immune-lowering ...

Background Lower limb cellulitis and deep vein thrombosis share clinical features and investigation of patients with cellulitis for concurrent DVT is common. The prevalence of DVT in this group is ...

2006;25(8):695-699. Our local study is limited by its retrospective design and relatively small number of cases, although it is one of the larger series of orbital cellulitis reported to date.