Boils Treatment

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Once the boil has localized close to the skin surface, your doctor will probably recommended that it be opened and the contents expressed a procedure known as incision and drainage, or I and D. This is a procedure that should be done by a medical professional. If the doctor incises the boil, or if it ruptures by itself, it will drain thick pus. A topical antibiotic, such as Betadine or bacitracin, may be prescribed to help clear the infection.

Your doctor will probably prescribe an oral antibiotic and do a culture of the contents of the boil. When the results of the culture reveal the particular organism responsible for the infection, your antibiotic prescription may be changed accordingly.

If the situation recurs, and the culture determines it to be a staphylococcal infection, close contacts of yours may also need to be treated so that you do not pass the infection back and forth.

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