Suggest Treatment For Boils On Face

Posted on Sat, 6 Sep 2014

Question: Sir, a few days back I developed a skin condition after using a razor. Subsequently, my doctor prescribed the following medicines : tablet : cefixime and azithromycin, Flexon and Emanzen tablets. Am extremely sorry to have kept you waiting. Within two days I developed a number of boils on my face and am now in a fix. The doctor advised an additional dose ( increasing the dosage to 3 daily from being 2 earlier).
Request your help pl.
My email is YYYY@YYYY

Answered by Dr. Johny Chacko (2 hours later)

Brief Answer:
? Folliculitis

Detailed Answer:
Hello Mr. XXXXXX,

Welcome to healthcare magic.

I understand from your query that you are having multiple boils on your face which are not responding to antibiotics.

The possibilities I can think of based on your history and description are folliculitis, sycosis barbae and pseudofolliculitis.

These are different types of infections of the hair follicle.

You have a feature to upload the images by yourself at the right side of the query page, please utilize that so that I can answer your query better. You can also send the image as attachment to YYYY@YYYY , with the subject as 'Attn: Dr. Johny Chacko'.

Please revert back with clear photographs.

Regards,
Dr. Johny Chacko

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar