It would be unreasonable to assume that the problem can be accurately diagnosed without a personal visit to a dermatologist, but even then, doctors have been trained to make money, not to know how to be helpful and cure (you might teach the dermatologist by showing them something they never saw). It probably is staph. Honey is healthy topically also, even sugar, but Sugar itself will feed an infection, honey has not only been used to fight infection by the ancient Egyptians, but traditionally in all societies. Studies done in other countries usually reveal home remedies that don't pay doctors huge sums of money (the U.S. is too commercial and doctors can't afford to have us healthy).