Home Remedies for Impetigo

Home remedies for Impetigo include:

Practice good hygiene. Avoid scratching the lesions and picking at them as this can spread the infection.
Use disposable towels and napkins to dry the skin to prevent infecting other people.
Clean the lesions well and keep them covered lightly with a piece of gauze. This prevents any further infection and scratching.
Crush fresh cloves of garlic and apply this paste to the sores to reduce itching.
Chop some turnip and soak these pieces in vinegar for a few hours. Eat these to get relief from symptoms of impetigo.
Add two to three drops of tea tree oil to your bath water and soak in this water daily for an easy home remedy for impetigo.
Add a few drops of myrrh oil to some water and use this water to wash the infected areas of skin.
Apply some olive oil to the affected areas for fast relief from itching.
Mix calamine lotion with tea tree oil and apply this to the lesions for quick relief.
Aloe Vera gel is another great healer of impetigo. Apply the gel to the skin a few times a day to treat the condition and encourage healing.
Mix one portion of apple cider vinegar with four portions of water and use this solution to clean the affected areas and reduce itching.
Drink plenty of water and fluids and try an all fruit diet for the first few days of the infection to speed up the healing process.
Avoid caffeine, tobacco and alcohol as well as fried and oily foods.