Any of you suffer with skin boils or carbunkles???

JOCCO · May 19, 2016

Well as title says any of you deal with them?? Had a friend that had a bad spell, end up in hospital and being doctored. I had not seen or heard of one for years. Did not know they could get big as a baseball cause intense pain and fever!!! DR also said they are not caused by unsanitary conditions anyone could get one (or more).

Dick2 · May 19, 2016

Those were common when I was a kid, but no one knew the cause back then. Maybe it was the things that we ate? We never had any in our family, but I knew people that lived in more sanitary conditions than we did who had those.

Goose · May 19, 2016

Back in the 1960's I had surgery on an ulcer and picked up an infection of some sort in the hospital. I was bothered with random boils for a couple of years.

Haven't heard much about them in the last 30 or 40 years.

01gentdc · May 19, 2016

funny this is brought up ,we were just talking about it here amongst family members ,50 yrs ago ,when we are kids ,. seems only my sisters and mom would get boils on their knes, legs and arms, I never did ,.dad and mom wondered if the spring water caused it,maybe a virus from the cattle that were grazing on the watershed aquifer . cows were healthy .. mom started bringing in water ... it went away,

Pair-a-dice farm · May 19, 2016

I haven't heard of any in years. When I was a kid I had one on my knee that had to be lanced. The doctor told my dad that if it was left alone I might lose the use of my leg??? I always thought they were caused by a mineral deficiency or something else lacking in our diet but I never knew for sure.

buickanddeere · May 19, 2016

Common skin infection of multiple boils . Caused by people farming, trapping, butchering , exposed to crap and assorted biohazard . Without regular thorough hand washing with soap and water.

JerryS · May 19, 2016

When I was a kid the old folks called them "risins". Don't know the etymology of the word, other than that it was a raised place on the skin. One of my dad's stock phrases was "...sore as a risin."

I'm thinking these things are in the MRSA family of staph infections which are becoming resistant to nearly all the current arsenal of treatment drugs.

JOCCO · May 19, 2016

Yes they are mersa or staff and your right risen is a very old term.

rpllr · May 19, 2016

I had one in my arm pit a couple of years ago really hurt then had to have it lanced and stitched up, doctor said it was a staff infection

Tom in Ga · May 19, 2016

When I was young, risens or boils were pretty common to have. Mama would tape a piece of fatback to it and cover it with a bandage to keep from getting grease on everything you touched. It might take a couple of days to draw the core out, but it worked. Now I reckon folks would use drawing salve to do the same thing. I don't think they are that common now. Tommy

Mike Henry · May 20, 2016

worked at the grand hotel on mackinaw island as a bar tender a few yrs ago to get some extra money. Bar manager was a decent sized fella that had a problem with them. His face looked like someone hit him with a 2x4 with spikes in it. sometimes if things got really busy he would jump in behind the bar and give one of the other tenders a hand. They said they would be working along and all of a sudden he would have blood on his shirt or somewhere. They would tell him about it in case he didn't feel it. He would just keep working and say it was another of those boils breaking.
Step dad had a boil under his arm in the 50s. Dr lanced it and he said it filled a quart bowl and when the dr squeezed the core out it was the size of a little figure. Always had a scar but no other effects luckily.

MarkB_MI · May 20, 2016

Anybody who suffers from boils should have a hemoglobin A1C test to check for diabetes.

RBnSC · May 20, 2016

I have had a problem with recurring infections for a couple of years. Finally had a bad ear infection and had a reaction the antibiotic. Dr said it was staff and had me put an antibiotic salve up my nose and wash with hibbenclense. Seems to have worked.
Ron

pcox · May 20, 2016

I heard on a radio show put on by a doctor that boils, etc. are caused by a germ that quite often is found in your nose. He said that you could often get rid of them by putting an antibiotic ointment in your nose (using a cotton swab, not your finger!) twice a day for a month.

Your mileage may vary.

Pat

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