Treatment of carbuncle folk remedies and methods

Carbuncle is called acute purulent inflammation of the hair sacs and salivary glands with spread to the skin and subcutaneous tissue with the formation of a common infiltrate and necrosis due to the simultaneous introduction of microbes into many of them. Mostly elderly people get sick.

Symptoms: The carbuncle is characterized by the appearance of a painful compaction in the thickness of the skin of the subcutaneous tissue, which soon assumes a typical hemispherical shape with a strained shiny, reddish skin with a bluish hue in the center. A week later, suppuration begins.

What's going on? The cause of carbuncles can be both inadequate personal hygiene and general exhaustion of the body as a result of inadequate and inadequate nutrition or diseases such as diabetes and syphilis. Self-treatment of a boil can also cause a carbuncle.

Most often carbuncles occur on the back of the neck, lips, chin, back and waist.

With a favorable course of the process, the spread of suppuration stops, the destroyed tissue is torn off and healing begins.

The unfavorable course of the process leads to the fact that the carbuncle continues to grow and sometimes reaches the size of a tea saucer. There are signs of poisoning of the body with toxins, complications that can become inflammation of lymph nodes and vessels, thrombophlebitis and sepsis.

General condition in the unfavorable course of the disease is severe, accompanied by high body temperature, chills, rapid pulse. Strong pains are felt in the affected area.

What should I do? If a carbuncle occurs, you should immediately consult a doctor who decides whether non-surgical treatment will be effective or if urgent surgical intervention is necessary.

The most dangerous occurrence of carbuncle on the face, as a purulent process can go to the cavity of the skull.

Recipes. Traditional medicine recommends:

• bind the leaves of plantain to the carbuncle;

• make poultices from fresh aspen leaves;

• pribintovat to the carbuncle chewed rye bread with salt;

• wipe the carbuncle with an alcohol tincture of calendula.

Prevention of carbuncle is the observance of personal hygiene, regular body washing and change of underwear. It is necessary to refrain from combing the skin, squeezing out pimples and boils.