Symptoms of cellulitis may include redness, swelling, extreme tenderness or pain, skin that feels warmer than normal, red streaks extending from a wound, pus-filled sores, and fever.

The symptoms of orbital cellulitis include swelling of the face near the eye, a bulging eye, swollen eyelids, severe pain, reddening of the eye, temporary loss of vision, chills, fever, headaches, and vomiting.
 

Your doctor will examine the affected area. You may have blood tests and a culture of discharge from the wound.

In most cases your doctor will prescribe an oral antibiotic drug that you will take for about 10 to 14 days. Some infections are so serious, even at the beginning, that they require antibiotic injections or hospitalization for IV antibiotics.

If you are taking an oral medicine, your doctor will probably want to see you or talk to you 1 or 2 days after your first visit to make sure the antibiotic is working.

If the cellulitis does not get better with the antibiotics prescribed by your doctor, you may need to spend some time in the hospital where you can be given intravenous (IV) antibiotics.

In rare instances, if you have sinus infection that is causing orbital cellulitis, your doctor may recommend an operation to drain the infection from your sinuses.