Boils or furuncle or folliculitis is the infection of the hair follicle area. Especially in the underarm area where there is lot of heat and moisture these infections can be very deep seated and they can they can last for a very long time and are exceptionally painful. When we have these infections we usually tell our patients to take a short course of broad spectrum antibiotics for about 3 ton 5 days. We can also ask them to use medicines which can liquefy the pus so that infection and inflammation comes down immediately. Herbal poultice or Hot fermentation is a treatment where some heated herbs or heated cloth is applied again and again on the boil area to make sure that the boil bursts or it reduces the inflammation. But you don’t need a herbal poultice, you can actually get it done by using a hot towel which has been put in hot water and wrung dry. Then you can apply to the affected area three times a day so that the abcess bursts. If you feel that the abcess is not getting better and you’ve been on antibiotics and you do not have diabetes please meet a dermatologist who can advice on what is to be done. Maybe there is a small incision need to be made so that the pus can be let out. Once the pus is formed in any body cavity, the antibiotics find it very difficult to cross over and act on the bacteria and the pus. That is why you probably have to drain out the pus so the body can heal itself. So speak to your dermatologist if you are not better.

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