Talk:Erysipelas

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Alternate names

Is this really called St Anthony's Fire? Ergotism claims that name. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:46, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

• Cellulitis has been referred to as "Ignis sacer," and "St Anthony's fire," more specifically "Erysipelas." ---kilbad (talk) 02:53, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Yet this article indicates that this condition is distinct from cellulitis: "Erysipelas can be distinguished from cellulitis by ...". 24.128.188.152 (talk) 01:45, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Untitled

This page could really be improved/paired down. It reads more like a summary of S. pyogenes than a description of one of it's symptoms. Drchazz (talk) 23:20, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Please add a Link to Wagner's page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.195.117.83 (talk) 18:35, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Please add under Notable Cases “Fictional” the movie, Dr. Gillespie’s Criminal Case,1943. The children’s ward breaks out in severe cases of high fevers and erysipelas, while the doctors struggle to cure them. Nzinga115 (talk) 00:53, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Rash located apart from the symptoms?

"The rash is due to an exotoxin, not the Strep. bacteria itself and is found in areas where no symptoms are present - e.g. the infection may be in the nasopharynx, but the rash is found usually on the face and arms."

Garbled sentence? I.E. the rash *is* one of the symptoms, maybe the primary one, so saying that the rash is found where no symptoms are present is nonsensical.

 WikiAlto (talk) 06:25, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Translation into English, please?

When are articles like this one going to be translated into common English for us mere mortals who lack the necessary medical degrees to comprehend the dense layer of medicalese this article contains? It seems apparent that all that has happened here is that someone has copied the medical dictionary/encyclopedia content and pasted it into Wikipedia, which I am sure is fantastic for medical students, nurses and GPs, but fairly useless for the rest of us. At the bare-bones-least, the header summary should be devoid of medicalese, or a new section in plain English added. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, y'know, the online version of what E. Britannica used to be, simple, largely easy for any adult or even a child to understand; not the online version of Gray's anatomy!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aragond (talk • contribs) 01:32, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

I am broadly in agreement with you. The lead section should give an explanation sufficiently simple for an intelligent layman to understand, with the more technical material relegated to the detailed sections. LynwoodF (talk) 09:09, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Streptococcus erysipelatus

A number of texts reference this organism as the primary cause.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:15, 23 April 2016 (UTC).

Sense?

"In animals, erysipelas is a disease caused by infection with the bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae. Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae can also infect humans, but in that case the infection is known as erysipeloid." How does this make sense?? --31.0.124.127 (talk) 15:14, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Another cause

I got this because my white blood cell count was down due to that being a side effect of chemotherapy. A small cut on my knuckcles blossomed to a huge infection covering the entire dorsal surface of my hand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.191.157.230 (talk) 06:08, 23 March 2019 (UTC)