Boils are painful abscesses in the skin, caused by infections and your body's defensive responses to them.
They tend to be sore and tender, characterized by a raised bump on your skin with the surrounding area tender and red.
Pus, that mixture of bacteria, protein, and white blood cells, swells within, increasing the boil's size.
For most folks, boils aren't threatening at all, but there are some patients who will want to receive some medical advice and possibly treatment.
In most cases, treating boils is cheap and easy, although it is not necessarily fast.
When Home Treatment is Right Most people will find treating boils simple.
As with a number of other ailments (such as back pain), an application of heat can do a world of good.
Warm cloth or heat packs, when applied to the boil, can significantly improve blood flow to the boil, allowing more antibodies to fight off the infection that is the underlying cause of the boil.
However, this doesn't always work in treating boils, just like it doesn't always improve back pain.
Sometimes, medical advice and more specialized treatment is necessary to remove the boil.
Medication can be used for treating boils by targeting the infection and killing off the bacteria.
Fortunately, a few treatments should be more than enough to cure the infection, but the downside is that it won't necessarily remove the boil once it exists.
You may still need further medical treatment once the underlying cause of the boil (the infection) is cured.
Once the boil grows, it is possible to drain the different pockets of infection within the boil, but draining the boil when it is still small is largely ineffective.
Don't try to attempt to drain the boil yourself, as there are often several different pockets of liquid that are separated by tissue, so only a trained physician should perform the drainage.
When you've cured your boil, it's important to take preventative steps so that it does not reoccur.
Washing the area regularly with a soap mixture of chlorhexidine, triclocarban, and triclosan are effective at fighting off future staph bacteria, and applying Magnesium sulphate to the boil is another effective way to kill the bacteria and dry up the boil.
Treating boils isn't difficult for most folks, but they can be dangerous for many who have weakened immune systems.
AIDS patients definitely need to seek medical advice quickly if they develop a boil, but cancer, diabetes, and other immune system weakening ailment patients need to get medicine to fight off the infection and keep them healthy.
They tend to be sore and tender, characterized by a raised bump on your skin with the surrounding area tender and red.
Pus, that mixture of bacteria, protein, and white blood cells, swells within, increasing the boil's size.
For most folks, boils aren't threatening at all, but there are some patients who will want to receive some medical advice and possibly treatment.
In most cases, treating boils is cheap and easy, although it is not necessarily fast.
When Home Treatment is Right Most people will find treating boils simple.
As with a number of other ailments (such as back pain), an application of heat can do a world of good.
Warm cloth or heat packs, when applied to the boil, can significantly improve blood flow to the boil, allowing more antibodies to fight off the infection that is the underlying cause of the boil.
However, this doesn't always work in treating boils, just like it doesn't always improve back pain.
Sometimes, medical advice and more specialized treatment is necessary to remove the boil.
Medication can be used for treating boils by targeting the infection and killing off the bacteria.
Fortunately, a few treatments should be more than enough to cure the infection, but the downside is that it won't necessarily remove the boil once it exists.
You may still need further medical treatment once the underlying cause of the boil (the infection) is cured.
Once the boil grows, it is possible to drain the different pockets of infection within the boil, but draining the boil when it is still small is largely ineffective.
Don't try to attempt to drain the boil yourself, as there are often several different pockets of liquid that are separated by tissue, so only a trained physician should perform the drainage.
When you've cured your boil, it's important to take preventative steps so that it does not reoccur.
Washing the area regularly with a soap mixture of chlorhexidine, triclocarban, and triclosan are effective at fighting off future staph bacteria, and applying Magnesium sulphate to the boil is another effective way to kill the bacteria and dry up the boil.
Treating boils isn't difficult for most folks, but they can be dangerous for many who have weakened immune systems.
AIDS patients definitely need to seek medical advice quickly if they develop a boil, but cancer, diabetes, and other immune system weakening ailment patients need to get medicine to fight off the infection and keep them healthy.