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Suggest Treatment For Small Bump On The Breast
i have a small sized bump on my left breast, very much like a pimple. I plucked a hair out of what was a small bump and figured it may have been an ingrown hair, but now it is a red bump with pus and blood when i sqeezed it. I was wondering what it might be?
Fri, 27 Mar 2015
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I suggest a possibility of bacterial skin infection i.e a furuncle/ boil. The fact that it is red and has pus in it, is suggestive of an infection.
I advice you against squeezing it as this may push the infection deeper.
If I was the treating doctor I would have suggested you a course of an Oral antibiotic for a week.
My choice of an oral antibiotic would be either flucloxacillin or cephalexin for a week.
Oral antibiotics are prescription drugs and therefore I suggest that you talk to your doctor for the needful.
Topically you may use an OTC topical antibacterial e.g 2% mupirocin ointment, twice daily for a week.
Regards
I suggest a possibility of bacterial skin infection i.e a furuncle/ boil. The fact that it is red and has pus in it, is suggestive of an infection.
I advice you against squeezing it as this may push the infection deeper.
If I was the treating doctor I would have suggested you a course of an Oral antibiotic for a week.
My choice of an oral antibiotic would be either flucloxacillin or cephalexin for a week.
Oral antibiotics are prescription drugs and therefore I suggest that you talk to your doctor for the needful.
Topically you may use an OTC topical antibacterial e.g 2% mupirocin ointment, twice daily for a week.
Regards
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