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Suggest Medications For Abcess Due To Stap

I have an abscess on my arm and have been diagnosed with staph, what steps should I take in order to keep it down and make it go away? Since I have noticed it I have been putting Muciprin on it and putting a band-aid on it, just took one off and noticed it got a little bigger.
Fri, 26 Dec 2014
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An abscess usually needs to be drained of pus and infection. Using a topical medicine won't help since the infection is inside the skin. A doctor incises the abscess to make a small cut and allows the fluid to drain. Sometimes a piece of gauze is placed into the cavity to act like a wick and draw any further infection out. Oral antibiotics may or may not be necessary, depending on the extent of the infection. If they have grown staph from the abscess, they should be able to test it to see which antibiotics it would be susceptible to. Hope this helps.
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Suggest Medications For Abcess Due To Stap

An abscess usually needs to be drained of pus and infection. Using a topical medicine won t help since the infection is inside the skin. A doctor incises the abscess to make a small cut and allows the fluid to drain. Sometimes a piece of gauze is placed into the cavity to act like a wick and draw any further infection out. Oral antibiotics may or may not be necessary, depending on the extent of the infection. If they have grown staph from the abscess, they should be able to test it to see which antibiotics it would be susceptible to. Hope this helps.