My daughter has been getting boils. Can you help me get rid of them?!
Question: The boils have a white head on them and seem to be spreading. I give her baths twice a day with anti-bacterial soap. What else can i do?
Answers: The boils have a white head on them and seem to be spreading. I give her baths twice a day with anti-bacterial soap. What else can i do?
You don't generally get a lot of boils- generally you only get one or two. So the first thing would be to take her to the doctor and get it confirmed that that is what these are. Boils are usually caused by a staph bacteria, getting in beneath the skin where it doesn't belong. The best way to deal with them is the simplest, but applying moist heat directly to them to encourage them to drain on their own. They heal a lot faster that way. While you are waiting for it to drain, and until the skin is healed, each boil should be covered with a bandaid. Antibacterial soap is not more effective than regular soap, truthfully. Showers are also better for you than baths as well- in the bath you sort of sit and stew in a bacterial soup of sorts, and if you have a skin infection of any sort, it just spreads the bacterai to new spots. For bathing, it's also better to use a bath scrubbie than a washrag. After the bath, you can disinfect it in a bleach/water solution, or give in a minute or two in the microwave while it's damp. Then hang it in the sunlight and air to dry completely. Your daughter also needs to wear loose clothing, made of natural materials- not man made synthetics. Synthetics hold body heat and moisture against the skin, both invitations to infections of the skin. For the rest of her, air and sunlight are the best things to get- so if she can get stripped and into sunlight, even through a window, that's helpful as well. Make sure she has a good balanced diet, with a multivitamin/mineral supplement. What you eat doesn't give you boils, but it does affect how easily you can fight off infections and heal the skin afterwards. Boils arn't from being dirty either- in fact you can break out from being too clean. So give the twice daily baths a break there- once is plenty. But above all, take your daughter to the doctor. You need to have it confirmed that these are true boils. If they need to be lanced, the doctor can do that, and also give her an antibiotic if it's needed. Just don't go poking and prodding at them, and don't put on any kind of potions. The skin is capable of handling infections, and that's what is going on in the boil at the moment. Let the body do it's job, and don't try to help aside from the heat. Messing with is is sure to cause things to be worse, and can leave a nasty scar behind. So leave that to the doctor. Good luck, hopefully they will drain and heal, and go away soon.
Call her doctor!!
Go to the pediatrician! There are infections floating around out there that need antibiotics...bathing and putting Neosporin on them won't help...at least get it checked out.
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Grate raw potato & apply directly onto it. It cools it then sucks all the crap out. Repeat with new grated potato. Pain goes away too. Then start feeding her with lots of fruit & vegees.