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Suggest Remedy For Lump After Missing Meth Shot
missed shot of meth, there is redness an lump is hard, ive used hot packs that seamed to help some as the redness covered a wider area before now it is about an inch in dia. ifound scrip of cephalexin 500mg wondering if that would help. i want to drain it. can i use a needel to polk a hole and drain?
Tue, 24 Nov 2015
Local abcesses need medical intervention. Without drainage, the antibiotic cannot reach all the germs. Also, we currently cannot predict what antibiotics are the best for skin infections due to a high likelihood of resistance. Cephalexin works only in the minority of skin infections. Levaquin or clindamycin or sulfa drug work on the majority, but have significant numbers of resistance to each. Draining by an untrained person is likely to spread the infection not fix it.
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