How do you get rid of a pus filled infection

How do you get rid of a pus filled infection

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Seek a doctor for treatment of a wound with pus. The doctor may drain the area, swab to find the cause or give the patient an antibiotic to prevent further infection. Sometimes surgery is necessary. Have a great night.

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If it has already been recurrent, it means the pus has not been drained that well. You have to take in oral antibiotics usually for a week to control it for good. Cloxacillin is best for infections in the skin area. It is taken at 500mg 3-4…

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I have pus filled lumps on my penis and under my foreskin.?

Q: How do I get rid of it?It’s very sensitive and filled with pus. I’m pretty sure that it’s a bacterial infection. I am 14 years old and on my the head of my penis there is a small lump that looks like it’s filled with pus. It’s very close to the urethra but it doesn’t come in contact with urine. I just got that one recently. I have another one for a week or two under my foreskin, It was a lot larger and was filled with pus for sure. I don’t know how to get rid of both of those. It hurts when I pull back my foreskin for the larger bump because of the smaller one coming in contact with something.I’m not sexually active. I regularly masturbate once a day sometimes two and sometimes don’t at all. Ever since I found these lumps I haven’t masturbated since.I wash my body and my penis with anti-bacterial soap.I try to put anti-bacterial soap on the lumps, but it hurts a lot. I don’t know how to get rid of them.Thank you for your answers.

A: It sounds like smegma, which is a natural and normal substance formed by the mucosal tissues of the inner foreskin.Smegma is just the mucus secreted and also sloughed off dead skin cells. Women also produce it in their labial folds and the female foreskin–the clitoral hood.Just soaking it in a warm bath should help to loosen up the deposits, and sometimes a little baby oil will also help.I reccommend not using antibacterial soaps on your penis—they are too harsh.And it’s not from masturbation, but if your problem persists, a trip to the doctor may become necessary.Don’t let anyone talk you into the mutilation of circumcision, which is neural and vascular damage of the penis, and always diminishes sexual sensitivity and ability.Circumcision is the worst hoax ever perpetrated on the male sex.A foreskin is not a birth defect; it is a birthright.ERIC

I think I’ve had a post-operative infection for almost 2 years. Advice?

Q: When I had my third baby by c-section (3rd c-section) 22 months ago my incision became infected. Six days after he was born I noticed a terrible smell and my abdomen was so bloated I looked 9 months pregnant again. I went to the doctor. My OB started to remove my staples. Skin had grown over the 3rd staple and after tugging a few times it came out and bloody pus squirted all over him. He pushed on my stomach and more fluid just poured out of me. After he’d “wrung out” as much as he could he took one of those long swabs and stuck it in the hole in my incision to see how deep the infection was. It went in all the way, up toward my belly button. He looked pretty worried! After that he put a bandage over the hole, prescribed 5 antibiotics, and sent me home, telling me to come back two days later. This is a long story so I’ll try to make it short. I continued to leak stinky fluid so he got me a pump to suck it out and kept giving me 3-6 different antibiotics for 9 weeks. One the the meds wasn’t safe to take while breastfeeding so I had to give my baby formula while I was taking it (he prescribed it twice for 7 days each) and pump and dump my milk. My milk supply plummeted and my son was mostly bottlefed because I could never make enough milk after that. (I’d exclusively BF before without trouble, but this time around stress was preventing my milk from letting down.) The antibiotics I took made us both lactose intolerant (probiotics took care of that though) and gave us yeast infections for months. When my son was 9 weeks old the doctor said the infection was gone, but I still had a little area in my (pardon the term) “fat apron” that was hard and obviously still filled with fluid. He said not to worry. When my son was 5 months old I’d decided that we’d suffered with the yeast rashes long enough. I decided to try a yeast diet. I made it three days before my milk completely dried up. I started eating a normal diet. A couple weeks later I tried it again. The same thing happened. I went back to a normal diet again. The very next morning I woke up with my belly fat pretty darn firm, like I was holding in water. I’d gained 15LBS over night. I went up two pant sizes. It’s been that way ever since, until now. It’s suddenly gotten much worse. It’s not merely firm, but downright hard. I’m 30 weeks pregnant and I’m worried about what will happen when I have the c-section (they won’t let me have a natural birth). And no, I’m not confusing hard, bloated fat with my uterus. I’ve been pregnant several times and have been overweight each time. 🙂 My belly fat used to be doughy (any other moms will know what I mean lol) and now it’s hard. And it’s ONLY in my abdominal fat. I’m not holding in water in my feet, ankles, hands, fingers, or anywhere else. Just there!Whatever this is, I want to get rid of it before the baby is born. I will NOT subject another baby to antibiotics. Heck, I’m not even going to take painkillers afterward. I don’t trust traditional medicine anymore (not because of this but for many other reasons). So if you know what’s causing this and what I can do, let me know PLEASE! Is this related to yeast? Or have I had the same infection raging within my abdomen all this time? I want a healthy, exclusively breastfed, drug-free baby! I don’t want to take antibiotics! Help!I’m going to a different doctor this time, different hospital even. I’m seeing the midwives in the practice and I’ve mentioned this to both of them. Neither seems to think it’s anything to worry about. I have an appointment tomorrow so I’ll bring it up again then.I’ve had two ultrasounds but if there was something left in there it wasn’t noticed.

A: Since you are pregnant try extra virgin olive oil as it has the most nutrients and should be more than safe since you can eat it. It kills bacteria and is a natural source of vitamin e.

Had a hangnail, and my thumb is now swollen?! Help!!?

Q: Yesterday in class i tore hangnail in class. Afterschool (5:00 pm) it started to swell. In 5th grade, something similar happened, and i was taken to the ER so they could drain my thumb (it was filled with pus. Being the idiot i am, i was scared of the same thing happening again, so i tried to do what the doctor had done and cut a small line next to my nail. Only blood came out. I dont know if i have an infection or not, but my thumb is swollen a little, throbbing and the right part hurts when you touch it. How do i get rid of the swelling and throbbing? I dont seecpus, so i dont think its infected help?!

A: A hangnail is just a small piece of skin around the nail that should be trimmed off with a good pair of cuticle scissors. There shouldn’t be any blood and sometimes pus is in the blood and you can not see it. (occult) Swelling is an indication of an infection. You should see at least some redness too. Swelling, throbbing and being painful to the touch is an indication that something is wrong. You have to be very careful as peritonitis (blood poisoning) can be suspected. You will have to see the doctor again and please don’t “operate” on yourself again. For now, put ice on the part but use a small towel or something that is clean so that the ice isn’t as cold as to damage the tissue around the affected part. Pour some hydrogen peroxide on it freely in case of infection several times a day. If it turns white and bubbles up, there is infection. Use a band aid to keep it clean until you seek medical attention.