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How To Get A Permanent Cure For Folliculitis?
I have folliculitis. Neosporin or other OTC antibiotic creams help as long as I apply them. But as soon as I stop, it comes back. Within just a few days of stopping the antibiotic cream, the spots are itching again, and I get crusty build up, the sores puss and bleed, and they're very tend to the touch. I usually break down and get more antibiotic cream, and sure enough after a few days of the cream, it feels fine.
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Recurrent folliculitis needs to be treated with an oral antibitic along with topical antibacterial ointment, preferably mupirocin.
Recurrent folliculitis could be a manifestation of underlying immunosuppression, raised blood sugar or it could be also be due to a carrier state(nasal flora).
I would advice that you get a pus culture sensitivity from one of the lesions, which would guide about the causative bacteria and its antibiotic sensitivity.
A blood sugar test is also advisable.
An empirical course of an antibiotic from the penicillin group can be started till the culture report becomes available.
Topical mupirocin should be applied to the lesions twice daily and also just inside the nares/nostrils to eradicate carrier state
regards
Recurrent folliculitis needs to be treated with an oral antibitic along with topical antibacterial ointment, preferably mupirocin.
Recurrent folliculitis could be a manifestation of underlying immunosuppression, raised blood sugar or it could be also be due to a carrier state(nasal flora).
I would advice that you get a pus culture sensitivity from one of the lesions, which would guide about the causative bacteria and its antibiotic sensitivity.
A blood sugar test is also advisable.
An empirical course of an antibiotic from the penicillin group can be started till the culture report becomes available.
Topical mupirocin should be applied to the lesions twice daily and also just inside the nares/nostrils to eradicate carrier state
regards
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