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I have a painful boil on my face next to my nose. I noticed it this morning and thought it was just a blind pimple but over the course of today it has gotten bigger and more painful. My whole face hurts from my nose to my ear, i think it has inflamed to my sinuses.
Does anyone have anyone have any boil remedies?
hot poultice? You can get boil packs from pharmacies - there's a pharmacy in Mountain Gate which is open till 9pm, they are really good.
Heat packs to draw it out and then when it has a pustule drain it :) It's really the only way. Just make sure whatever you use to break the skin is sterile, and do not break the skin until it has a pustule as sometimes they can go away with heat as well. If its REALLY big you'll have to do it at a Dr, to make sure it's not more than one.
They are awful I have had one with each of my pregnancies in a very bad spot up on my thigh.
This might seem really strange, but I use bonjela to help with the pain. It seems to bring the head out as well.
Bonjela :o Will keep that one in my bag of tricks to try, thanks :)
Owies Tinks. Last time I had an evil whopper like that I swore not to touch it (it was way too sore to touch anyway) and it never came to a head. About 4 weeks later and lots of masks I was able to get the core out like a blackhead.
Ok dumb q. What's a boil and how do you tell ther difference from a pimple?
Boils are bigger and deeper than pimples. They're more painful too.
+ a boil is caused by the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus - unfortunately i know TOO WELL about these horrible things :o:
ETA: Tinks - use a hot (as hot as you can stand it!) compress for 10-15 mins at a time this will help draw it to a head and ....like Rouge said whatever you use to pierce it, make sure it is sterile. once drained, cover with a bandaid to aid healing and minimise infection to surrounding area from the draining pus......
Thanks ladies. It's really painful today. I've been doing hot compresses but no head as yet. I just want to squeeze the bejeezus out of it.
When it gets a head does it just look like a giant pimple?
Ammaki, pretty much (but much much bigger) google boils and there are links to the different varities.
Did anyone see on YouTube the clip that went around of the worlds biggest zit? It wasn't a zit/pimple but a type of boil (can't recall the proper name). Ewwww!
Hope it goes away soon Tinks.
CBG YES!! That was awful! They were saying it smelt too, wasnt one person vomiting?
Yeh I saw that it was a sebacious cyst
hey I just grossed out work with that clip ;)
I just watched a bunch of youtube clips hahaha so gross!
That clip grossed me out too. It was disgusting lol
lol you should check out the website called popthatzit ;) Many hours of entertainment right there!
we used to treat boils with magnoplasm, you can buy it in chemists, just a cream that you apply to the boil (very sticky and thick) and then cover it, only takes a short time to draw all the muck out of it.
last boil I had had to be treated with antibiotics. It was many heat drawing treatments and such later and still VERY painful! Had it for 3 weeks and was between my butt cheeks though! Many sleepless nights and was that sore I had to beg the doctor for pain relief as I hadn't slept for ages and was in agony!
Hope the heat drawing works Tinks!
Ouchies! - yeah i had to have AB's for mine too...they are soooo painful but the AB's worked wonders :)!!:
It worked!!! I popped the little sucker this morning and it's feeling much better! It still looks disgusting though.
Okay, thanks girls, I googled the gigantic pimple - and still feel ill at all that puss!:sick:
I discovered a website "popthatzit" which is *full* of videos ... rather gross ...
Tinks - You gotta make sure you get the core out..like a chunky bit at the bottom of the "hole". DP had several of these when he was working at the mines in north QLD and if you dont get the core out they can keep coming back till you get it out!! Try and pinch so you are squeezing from the outside of the hard part around the boil.
Did you record it for youtube? Apparently everyone does LOL:
EWWWWWW! I am not easily disgusted but these make my stomach churn every time! DP is now banned from youtube for looking up such videos........:
:rofl: I wish i did!