2007-02-21 08:26:17 · 5 answers · asked by jose h 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Skin Conditions
You should go to a doctor who can drain the abscess and prescribe antibiotics. Do not delay, it can spread and get in your bloodstream (sepsis).
2007-02-21 08:34:07 · answer #1 · answered by Haley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beside going to doctor, try to cut way down on all starchy foods, sweets, etc. These things feed the infection, in a sense, and prohibit rapid healing. I have had abscesses and I know how painful they are, but, again, cut back on starches and sweets, this will help a great deal, but not a cure-all.
2007-02-21 09:14:44 · answer #2 · answered by Spotty 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saturate a gauze pad with Hydrogen Peroxide and lay it on the area. It should help it relieve the pain and hopefully heal. Change it as needed. Neosporin has a pain killer in it that also could help the pain.
Soak in an Epsom Salts tub.
2007-02-21 08:55:59 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is really bad you need to go to the local emergency room and have it lanced. I had an abcess that within 3 days turned into Fournier's Gangrene. The doctors at the hospital said it was very close to poisoning my blood and killing me. If I had had it taken care of quickly, I could have saved mysel much discomfort, surgery, and a near death experience.
2007-02-21 08:40:13 · answer #4 · answered by Niklaus Pfirsig 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to the doctor, get some antibiotics, perhaps get it lanced and follow up with using a surgical scrub e.g. Betadine.
2007-02-21 08:34:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋