prevention,remedies,treatments,medication and antibiotics

 

Treatments and drugs

You can generally treat small boils at home by applying warm compresses to relieve pain and promote natural drainage.

For larger boils and carbuncles, treatment usually includes draining the boil with an incision and sometimes taking antibiotics:

• Incision and drainage. Your doctor may drain a large boil or carbuncle by making a small incision in the tip. This relieves pain, speeds recovery and helps lessen scarring. Deep infections that can't be completely drained may be packed with sterile gauze so that pus can continue to drain.
• Antibiotics. Sometimes your doctor may prescribe antibiotics to help heal severe or recurrent infections, or infections that may be caused by MRSA.

Alternative medicine

Tea tree oil, which is extracted from the leaves of the Australian tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia), has been used for centuries as an antiseptic, antibiotic and antifungal agent. It's also used topically to treat boils, although there's no strong scientific evidence that it's beneficial.

Tea tree oil can cause allergic reactions in some people, so be sure to stop using it and tell your doctor if you have any problems with its use.

Prevention

Although it's not always possible to prevent boils, especially if you have a compromised immune system, the following measures may help you avoid staph infections:

• Wash your hands regularly with mild soap. Or, use an alcohol-based hand rub often. Careful hand washing is your best defense against germs.
• Thoroughly clean even small cuts and scrapes. Wash the wound well with soap and water and apply an over-the-counter antibiotic ointment.
• Keep wounds covered. Keep cuts and abrasions clean and covered with sterile, dry bandages until they heal.
• Keep personal items personal. Avoid sharing personal items, such as towels, sheets, razors, clothing and athletic equipment. Staph infections can spread via objects, as well as from person to person. If you have a cut or sore, wash your towels and linens using detergent and hot water with added bleach, and dry them in a hot dryer.

There are a variety of boils treatment to choose from and here are some of them:

1. When boils are simple and young, home boils treatment is an effective method for curing. Treating them at an early stage means administering the medication as soon as the boil is noticed.Hot soaks and hot packs are popular home remedies for boils wherein one applies heat to the infected area, improving circulation and therefore allowing the body to fight the infection by circulating antibodies as well as white blood cells to stave it off. The boil can also be soaked in warm water which will encourage the pus to rise to the surface, and once it does the infected area should be washed with antibacterial soap and dried.If the infection has affected the surrounding skin, you may need to supplement your home boils treatment by administering antibiotics to the infected surrounding areas to prevent further spreading.
2. If the boil persists for a few weeks or more, contact your doctor for professional boils treatment. He may incise it and drain the pus out from the boil, which will speed up recovery and reduce pressure and pain.In some cases, the boil may occur much deeper in the skin than usual, and in this case the doctors may apply gauze to continue drainage after the incision has been done. In addition to this, antibiotics and vitamin supplements may be prescribed to complement the boils treatment especially if boils are consistently occurring. These will help to fight future infections, but if they still continue to occur you may have to undergo some tests to determine if there is a serious problem causing the consistent appearance of boils.
3. Surgery is done as a last resort boils treatment for recurring and serious cases. Surgery involved the removal of the sweat glands under the skin where infection commonly occurs. However, most cases of boils can be treated with home remedies but you should talk to your doctor as soon as you notice the frequency of its appearances.

Boils treatment are easily accessible and can be done to effectively remove boils, as long as you remember not to pop them yourself until the boils are ready.
In order to prevent the need for boils treatment and its occurrence, practice of good hygiene and frequent washing of hands with antibacterial soap will greatly reduce your chances of infection with a boil.

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