Erythema multiforme

Patients can be advised to clean their skin lesions gently with soap and water twice daily and apply a topical emollient. Open, oozing wounds should be bandaged, and it may help if patients are advised to maintain a bland diet until oral lesions are resolved. Patients can also be advised to drink extra fluid to overcome poor fluid intake and cutaneous fluid losses, and to aid renal excretion of aciclovir or valaciclovir.