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How To Treat Boils At Home

How To Treat Boils At Home

January 25, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

A boil, as the name suggests, looks like a bump on the skin and is caused due to localized infection of the deeper layer of the skin we will talk about how to treat boils at home. It starts off as a benign looking reddened area causing irritation and becoming tender to touch. Over a period of time lasting between 2-3 days, it hardens and starts getting larger. By this time, the immune system kicks in and sends the infection fighting white blood cells to the area to fight the infection. The boil by now has a collection of white blood cells as well as infectious bacteria. This concoction is known as pus. This pus makes the top most surface of the boil to form a head which may drain on its own or may be surgically opened. The endeavour here is to teach you about boils, so that you can learn how to treat a boil. For this, it is necessary to know why boils occur. It can occur due to external or internal causes. External causes include a mosquito or a flea bite or a splinter remaining lodged in skin. Internal causes are ingrown hair or acne caused by infected sweat glands.

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Can I Develop A Boil?

Research has shown that people with weaker immune systems are more likely to develop boils than the ones with healthy immune systems. Impurities of blood are also very likely to cause boils. Certain diseases can lower the immune-efficiency of the body. People with such diseases are likely to form boils. Thus, it is important for you to know to how to treat a boil.

How To Treat boil

If a boil is benign, it can be easily treated at home with simple methods. Best method to get rid of a boil is to start the treatment as soon as it is noticed. In the early stages, it is essential to know to how to treat a boil. Simple treatment like heat application can be effective to get rid of a possible trouble maker. Application of hot soaks and heat packs is very effective. This essentially improves blood circulation in the affected area thus bringing in more life giving oxygen and helping the body fight off the infection.

In the initial stages, when the boil is small in size and is firm to touch, treatment should not be carried out by pinching or draining it. This can be painful and will lead to complications. If hot packs and soaks have not worked, then it is best to leave it till the head forms. Once pustules have entered the boil, it will form a head and make skin surface soft. This can be easily drained. Draining of pus and excess materials from the boil is an instant pain reliever. However, if the boil is large and has not formed a head, it might be best left to a medical practitioner for treatment. Self help here might not be useful as a large boil might contain many small packets of pus.

Since boils are formed due to infections, you can treat your skin boils by using antibiotics. It is best to use antibiotics only after prescription. These can effectively fight the infection and dry out the boil from inside. However, use of antibiotics in all cases is not recommended.

Home Remedy For Boil Treatment

Simple things available around the house can be effectively used for skin boil treatment. Below are some home remedies that will help you find treatment for skin boils.

  1. Garlic extract or onion juice has great antibiotic properties and their application can dry out the pus.
  2. Make a mixture of I cup bitter gourd juice and I tsp limejuice. Empty stomach consumption for a period of 1 month effectively cleanses the blood and is helpful in fighting blood filled boils.
  3. Make a paste of 1 tsp milk cream with Milk cream with ½ tsp vinegar a pinch of turmeric. Apply this paste over blood filled boil. Wash off after 30 minutes. This dries out the pus. Antibiotic properties of turmeric work like a magic.
  4. Grind cumin seeds in water to make a paste. Apply this paste on top of boil and see the magical results.

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