Risk factors and complications

Boils - a painful, pus-filled blisters that begin to form under the skin when bacteria cause inflammation in the hair follicles. First, the skin appear reddish, painful swelling. They quickly fill with pus, increase in size and become more painful until they rupture and pus does not flow out.

After that, the place where the boil, covered with a crust and gradually heals. Small boils usually disappear without a trace, and the place of large scars may remain. Sometimes in one place it is formed several boils. Such clusters commonly called carbuncles.

You should also see a doctor if a boil appeared on the face or back, and if they appear very often.

Boils

Boils can appear anywhere on your skin, but most often they appear on the face, neck, armpits, buttocks or hips, that is covered with hair areas where you can sweat or rub the skin. The symptoms of boils are usually the following:

• painful, red bump the size of a pea
• red, swollen skin around the tubercle
• tubercle increase in size for several days, as it is filled with pus (sometimes can reach the size of a golf ball)
• the appearance of a yellow-white tops of hillocks, which eventually breaks and gives exit pus

Once the boil breaks and flows, the pain usually subsides. Small boils usually disappear without scarring, but larger boils can leave scars.

Carbuncles

Carbuncles - a cluster of boils that usually appear on the back of the neck, shoulders or sides.

Carbuncles:

• cause more serious infection than single boils
• developed and tested more slowly than single boils
• often leave scars

Symptoms that accompany the appearance of carbuncles:

• general malaise
• fever
• chills

Causes

Boils are usually formed when one or more hair follicles penetrate staph bacteria. These bacteria, which normally live on your skin and sometimes in the throat and nasal passages, can cause a variety of serious illnesses, including pneumonia and endocarditis - an infection of the inner lining of the heart. They are one of the most common causes of many diseases for which treatment is required hospitalization.

The staph bacteria that cause boils, usually penetrate the skin through cuts, scratches or other damage to the skin. To cope with the infection at this point accumulated neutrophils that leads to inflammation and pus formation in which there are dead white blood cells, bacteria and dead skin cells.

Risk factors

Close contact with a person suffering from an infection caused by Staphylococcus especially high probability of boils those that live with people who appear regularly boils and / or carbuncles.

• Diabetes

In this disease, the body is more difficult to deal with infections, so they can develop more often than usual.

• Other diseases of the skin

Some diseases, such as acne and eczema Eczema - is difficult to treat , Destroy the protective barrier of the skin, due to which it becomes more vulnerable to staphylococcus.

• Weakened immune system The immune system - how it works?

If the immune system for some reason diminished, risk of furuncles greatly increased.

Complications

It boils rarely causes complications, but they are heavy.

• Blood poisoning

In some cases the bacteria from penetrating into the blood boil and distributed in various parts of the body. Blood poisoning, or sepsis can lead to infections such as endocarditis and osteomyelitis Osteomyelitis: severe inflammatory disease . In itself, a blood infection, which is characterized by high fever, rapid breathing and increased heart rate can lead to septic shock, which is a life-threatening condition or a sharp decrease in blood pressure.

• Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

Another potentially dangerous complication can be the appearance of staph bacteria that is resistant to traditional treatments. About half of staph bacteria that is found in the analysis time doctors are resistant to many antibiotics Antibiotics - whether they will help you in the foreseeable future? Including methicillin. The appearance of MRSA caused doctors used other antibiotics, such as vancomycin, but some types of staph bacteria have become less prone and its application.

Small boils can be treated with warm compresses - they reduce pain and speed up recovery. Large boils doctors sometimes pierce and output pus. It relieves pain; after the procedure boils speeding and the likelihood of scarring is reduced.

For the treatment of severe, recurrent infections and infections caused by MRSA antibiotics are used.

What causes boils in children

Finding boil with your child can be a shock for parents. In addition to its ugly appearance, boils contain pus, which is released from the blood as it is maturing. Since boils highly contagious, it is necessary to be cautious in their purity, their content is not got to healthy skin. Since children are more active than adults, they are more prone to the appearance of boils. Children playing in the dirt can easily get infected boils as a result of the penetration of microbes in the skin through cuts or wounds.

Boils, also called lesions, are a skin infection that starts in the sebaceous glands and hair follicles, which are filled with pus. Boils cause staph infection. It is painful, swollen red bumps on the skin, which may be accompanied by fever and pain. Although boils in children is not a serious problem if the baby is healthy in general, but there is a risk that the child can get sick if the infection spreads further.

Children with diabetes are more prone to the appearance of boils and other skin problems and infections. Eczema, inflammatory skin disease that affects the hands, face, elbows and knees, and can cause boils. Cracked skin dryness and scratching with eczema increased the likelihood of penetration of microbes in the skin, and the children in this case are most susceptible to the appearance of boils.

Boils can be caused by weakened immunity Immunity - types and characteristics in children in adults . When the child's immune system is weakened, his body is unable to repel the attacks of the bacteria that cause boils. Children suffering from recurring appearances boils but preventive measures have yet to take a blood test.

Although many people do not consider the cause of boils drugs, they can sometimes provoke boils. Taking medications such as antibiotics and cortisone, you may put yourself at risk of the appearance of your boils. Drugs such as prednisone, weaken the immune system The immune system - how it works? Increasing the risk of developing boils.

Boils, appeared on the child's face, especially around the mouth or nose may contain bacteria that can spread through the bloodstream and cause meningitis Meningitis - an inflammation of the meninges . Any boils on the face it is necessary to show the doctor. Boils bright red or have red streaks extending to other parts of the body may also be a sign of blood poisoning.

Treatment for boils in infants

Boils - is an infection that can spread throughout the body if it is not cured. Treatment for boils in infants is usually prescribed by a doctor. There are some treatments if you can not see a specialist. Furuncles usually appear as tumors. They are often filled with pus, which in itself may break. Furuncle - an infection of the hair follicle and can occur on the face, neck, armpits, groin and buttocks.

Wash boil twice a day and apply an antibiotic Antibiotics - whether they will help you in the foreseeable future?   to the sore spot. A warm compress will help pus will break and go outside. Apply a warm compress for about 20 minutes three or four times a day to the boil quickly matured.

Boils are usually held for two weeks. The larger boils can leave behind scars or scars. Extrude or boil piercing can cause the spread of infection to other areas of the skin.

Boils in children should be treated by doctors. Boils that cause severe pain, lasting more than two weeks, impede traffic or changed the color of the adjacent area of ​​the skin, require immediate treatment to the doctor.

Parents should thoroughly wash their hands with antibacterial soap after treating a boil. It should be washed in hot water all clothing, towels, bedding and other things that have been in contact child with boils.