what is a skin boil and how do you treat it?

Answer 1

you can treat it by making a paste of oatmeal and warm water and letting it sit on the sore for 5 minutes. do it 2-3 times per day. keep the sore washed and dry when you're not treating it.

Answer 2

A boil is a localized skin infection. Usually it develops into a lump that's red and oozes pus (kind of like an oversized pimple). Treatment is best obtained by antibiotics, but at home there are a few things you can do to lessen the pain and encourage drainage until you can get to your doctor: use warm, wet compresses to draw out the infection and ease the pain. Don't try to pop it yourself...it will open and drain on its own, or your doctor can open it for you. Keep the area covered and moist; I used a large bandage slathered with antibiotic ointment. The process was much the same after the doctor visit, except that the ointment had a prescription strength antibiotic that was used a few times daily, and I was also given oral antibiotics.

Answer 3

A boil, also referred to as a skin abscess, is a localized infection deep in the skin

Most simple boils can be treated at home. Ideally, the treatment should begin as soon as a boil is noticed since early treatment may prevent later complications.

The primary treatment for most boils is heat application, usually with hot soaks or hot packs. Heat application increases the circulation to the area and allows the body to better fight off the infection by bringing antibodies and white blood cells to the site of infection



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Answer 4

Every year, millions of Americans seek treatment for skin problems. Although most skin conditions aren't life-threatening, they can be uncomfortable and emotionally distressing. This is particularly true of inflammatory conditions such as boils and carbuncles — painful, pus-filled bumps that form under your skin when bacteria infect one or more of your hair follicles.

Boils usually start as red, tender lumps. The lumps quickly fill with pus, growing larger and more painful until they rupture and drain. Although some boils disappear a few days after they occur, most take about two weeks to heal.

Boils can occur anywhere on your skin, but appear mainly on your face, neck, armpits, buttocks or thighs — hair-bearing areas where you're most likely to sweat or experience friction. Sometimes boils occur in clusters called carbuncles. Although anyone can develop these painful infections, people who have diabetes, a suppressed immune system, or acne or other skin problems are at increased risk.

You can usually care for a single boil at home, but don't attempt to lance or squeeze it — that may spread the infection. Call your doctor if a boil or carbuncle is extremely painful, lasts longer than two weeks or occurs with a fever. In that case, you may need antibiotics or surgical drainage to clear the infection.*****

Answer 5

There is a sauve out called broil ease it helps to bring the broil to a head.For quicker less painful remedy take an egg crack it get a napkin and soak it with the white part of the egg only do not use the yoke place it on the broil and let it dry up and harden then pull it off it may hurt a little but it will rid of the broil.Doctors say that skin broils r caused by some form of sickness that u may have it could only be a cold but instead of u being sick ur body forms a broil which is nothing but the infection wasting.Be careful not to let the puss touch any other part of ur body because it may cause another broil to come in that spot so it is contagious.

Answer 6

A boil is a blemish of the skin, usually caused by an infection or other undesirable ailment. The best thing to do is to use heat therapy, but if the boil is in later stages, you may want to get it lanced.

Answer 7

Obviously cupping isn't for you. Boil can be quiet messing not taken care of, get some cream at your local drug store that will help with the boils and leave them open to breath as much as possible. Don't touch them or try popping them they will go away on there own. Some may burst if they become infected or filled with fluid so watch out for that, they normally smell pretty gross.

Answer 8

A boil is usually an inward growth of a hair follicle. As the hair grows longer; it curls and begins to decay causing pus like material to fill the pocket that has been formed. It is "lanced" or opened to drain and drawing salves are applied to draw out the rest of the festered material. Pine tar salve or "boil ease" usually helps as does salt soaks.

Answer 9

A boil is an infection under the skin. Heat application is a good beginning, but sometimes a Dr. has to "lance" it (cut it to let the infection drain out).

Answer 10

A skin boil is what happens when two pieces of skin rub together constantly, making oil and, therefore a zit. But, your skin keeps on rubbing together and irritating it. The head gets tough and you have to use a needle and prick the head to get the pus out.