Replied by Kim (Oklahoma) on 06/01/2015
My son had chronic impetigo. Every little scrape would go bad. It really can be systemic, no matter how clean you are on the outside. I started giving him mass doses of garlic and goldenseal (it has been years, so I forgot how much, but probably 2 capsules of each with every meal - and he was around 5 years old. You would probably need more with a big fella), while applying a liquid tincture of goldenseal topically, and he never got it again. The topical goldenseal liquid was very effective. When scrapes and tick bites stopped getting impetigo, we discontinued the internal regimen.
