Like the kind that festers under the skin, but doesn't quite make it to the surface. The skin surrounding it is painfully sore. Do you go and have it lanced or just pop it and let the puss flow?

Just curious. My sister's, friend's, cousin's, uncle's, baby brother's, mama has one.

my aunts dads brothers wife has them

she uses drawing salve



smell like shit but works wonders

.. NO! .. I have had many things but never one of them. Sounds painful.

yeah, and i named it althom!

Anxiety said:

soak a towel with hot water and heat it, or use heating pads to help bring it to the surface quicker and accelerate your body's (I mean your sister's, friend's, cousin's, uncle's, baby brother's, mama) infection fighting/healing process.

ufoclub said:

I will tell her

DO NOT let it go on too long, it will become much more than a boil, if it goes on too long, a doctor can give you antibiotic pills that will kill it.

Boils are painful, often deep, bacterial infections which most often occur at the site of a hair follicle. Boils can be found on the skin of the neck, face, breasts, buttocks and chest area.


SYMPTOMS

A dome shaped, painful nodule.


Tender bumps on the skin which appear larger each day.

Red, swollen, puffy areas of skin which ooze clear, yellow or red fluid.

Fever.

Swelling of nearby lymph nodes or glands.

Pain at the site of the infected area.


MULTIPLE BOILS

Because boils are contagious, touching the skin after handling a boil or improperly treating a boil can cause spreading to other areas of skin. Multiple boils which appear on the skin as clusters of raw, red, irritated skin are called "carbuncles." These types of boils form small tunnels underneath the skin and are best treated by a physician.


CAUSES

Infection anywhere in the body.

Staphylococcus bacteria, sometimes spread through sharing hairbrushes, towels, washcloths and other items.

Poor hygiene.

Poor nutrition.

Illness, such as cold or flu.

Diabetes and other diseases which lower the immune system.


TREATMENT

Small boils will often heal themselves within 10-15 days, if no other infection or illness is present in the body. However, many boils do require treatment. Boils can usually safely be treated at home. Remember, if a boil fails to respond to treatment or symptoms become increasingly worse, you should seek your doctor's attention.


PREVENT spreading boils to other areas of your body by using fresh towels or disposable paper towels with each treatment and washing. Also, wash hands immediately after touching the boil. Cross-contamination is often worse than the original boil.


TAKE hot showers at least twice daily, instead of baths. The added heat and moisture will help the boil to open and drain on its own. Baths tend to spread bacteria to other areas of skin.


APPLY warm water heat to the boil using warm or heated cloths or a hot water bottle. This can be done 3-4 times daily for up to 20-minutes at a time.


OVER-THE-COUNTER pain medications can be used for painful boils.


TAKE Vitamin C during boil treatments to help boost the immune system.


DRAWING salves, particularly natural or herbal varieties, can be applied after heat therapy to draw the infection away from the body. Apply salves after a hot water treatment or shower and cover the area with cotton gauze.


Once heat has been applied for several days in a row, the boil's outer coating of skin will appear thinner. This most often means the boil is getting ready to drain. DO NOT pop a boil. Popping a boil will only contaminate surrounding skin. Instead, apply a clean, cotton bandage or gauze pad over the boil before bedtime. This will allow the boil to drain naturally, exposing only a small amount of skin to the bacteria. After the boil drains, wash the area thoroughly and cover with a bandage or cotton gauze three times daily or until the area has healed completely. Not covering the boil after drainage has occurred may cause reinfection to the same hair follicle or skin area.

Just go to your doctor and have him/her lance it. Takes a couple minutes and gets rid of it immediately. Beats fussing around with a bunch of treatments for weeks.

If you let things like cysts and boils linger for a long time, scar tissue can form around them that can make the lump even bigger and take longer to go away.

My friend got one on her ass and she said it began like a pimple. It was a hot ass summer and she was wearing jeans no undies and the chaffing got to her ass cheek and this thing showed up. She said it was just a tiny thing at first and that she thought it would just go away. Eventually it was huge and she said she could barely sit down because of it.

One day she couldn't take it anymore and she told her girlfriend to pop the thing. So her girlfriend had her lay on the floor and she dug her knuckles under the boil and pushed in and up and it popped.....into her eye!!!! She said it burned like hell

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

thanx for sharing

Mach said:

Anytime hon

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

EWWWWW!










Did her eye get infected?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

applekisses said:

She ran to the sink and ran water on it Not only did it burn but she said it stank

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

That is so sick...

applekisses said:

Isn't it I have an "in your eye" story.....and it doesn't even involve another man!

One time I was at a greek restaraunt and squeezed some lemon on my food and the juice from the lemon squirted directly into both my eyes. I felt like a mole searching around without my sight for a napkin

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Did you ever hear that urban legend about a woman (or man) who went to a male strip club and got a "crab" in her eye from a strippers wang?

I had one on my arm once and kept poking at it...it finally burst and i shit you not it almost hit the ceiling!!!

A friend of mine had one on her back...her boyfriend picked at it and pulled out a hair that was over a foot long!!

Ooooh how I love boil talk!

applekisses said:

Hahahah yeah I heard that before!!!

applekisses said:

in her eyeball or her eyelash??

CarrieLee said:

One time my friend had a sore foot. And it got so bad that he couldn't even walk on it. He looked between his big toe and the first little toe and it was all swollen. He squeezed on it and it popped and when he cleared all the puss and blood he said a little hair was sticking out. He pulled it and it was something like 3 inches long! He had an ingrown hair between his toes. Who grows hair there?

I made this whole story up about him using that thing like a lasso. It was his superpower weapon in the story

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

C'mon mate tell the superhero bit too !

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I know right! Hairs come out of the weirdest places sometimes!!

yep and I got rid of him

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

In here eyeball and it (supposedly) got all infected!

CarrieLee said:

I love talking about this sick crap!