Boils are painful red skin irritations that are caused by bacteria under the skin. The nature of boils is painful enough without adding the delicate locations they tend to appear in. The best way to avoid the pain of a boil is to avoid getting them if at all possible. Keeping your skin clean and exfoliated, avoiding clothing that rubs or irritates areas prone to boils and good nutrition are a good first line defense against these types of skin irritations. Once you have a boil, you should take care to treat it if possible but also know when to go to the doctor to have it looked at. Warm moist compresses are the favored method of ridding yourself of a furuncles or carbuncle when they appear.
There are two types of boils, a carbuncle which is a group of boils clustered together and a furuncle that is a boil that has infected a hair follicle. Neither of these is pleasant experiences to have but furuncles have an advantage in that they are usually caught in the early stages and treated sooner.
If at any time a boil becomes hard or hot, a doctor should take a look at it. They will usually lance the boil with topical or general anesthetic and sterilized equipment, drain the pus and related tissue that has formed the boil, have a sample of the pus that is present to aide in proper antibiotic prescriptions, flush or wash out the area that contained the pus and pack the area with gauze. While this may sound painful, it’s generally far less brutal than waiting for a boil to open on its own once its’ infected (indicated by being hard and hot).
Dealing with the sensitivity of the area and the pain that it is likely causing, a boil on your tentacle sack should be dealt with in the doctor’s office.
There are two types of boils, a carbuncle which is a group of boils clustered together and a furuncle that is a boil that has infected a hair follicle. Neither of these is pleasant experiences to have but furuncles have an advantage in that they are usually caught in the early stages and treated sooner.
If at any time a boil becomes hard or hot, a doctor should take a look at it. They will usually lance the boil with topical or general anesthetic and sterilized equipment, drain the pus and related tissue that has formed the boil, have a sample of the pus that is present to aide in proper antibiotic prescriptions, flush or wash out the area that contained the pus and pack the area with gauze. While this may sound painful, it’s generally far less brutal than waiting for a boil to open on its own once its’ infected (indicated by being hard and hot).
Dealing with the sensitivity of the area and the pain that it is likely causing, a boil on your tentacle sack should be dealt with in the doctor’s office.