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What Could Be The Red Puss Filled Lumps Under Both Armpits For A Person Undergone Treatment For MRSA?

I have little red puss filled lumps under both armpits that keep coming back some turn into really bad one that are very deep and take weeks to heal... It isn t an ingrown hair but had an order to it... Kinda concerned I was treated for MRSA a while ago and wondering if this could have something to do with it???
Tue, 11 Feb 2014
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Hello,

There are two possibilities for your kind of symptoms:

1. hidradenitis suppurativa : this is the most likely diagnosis in you case. It is a disease of apocrine glands which is characterized by multiple deep seated, pus filled lesion associated with comedones, scarring, sinus formation. This kind of disease a prolonged treatment with antibiotics and retinoids.

2. Recurrent folliculitis (infection of hair follicle): Very unlikely diagnosis which presents as pus filled raised lesion.this would require to get a pus culture and sensitivity done to find any resistant organism and to treat accordingly.

I would suggest you to meet your dermatologist for diagnosis and its treatment.

I don't think that treatment for MRSA has to do anything with it. Both look purely co-incidental events to me

Thanks

Dr Jyoti Gupta
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What Could Be The Red Puss Filled Lumps Under Both Armpits For A Person Undergone Treatment For MRSA?

Hello, There are two possibilities for your kind of symptoms: 1. hidradenitis suppurativa : this is the most likely diagnosis in you case. It is a disease of apocrine glands which is characterized by multiple deep seated, pus filled lesion associated with comedones, scarring, sinus formation. This kind of disease a prolonged treatment with antibiotics and retinoids. 2. Recurrent folliculitis (infection of hair follicle): Very unlikely diagnosis which presents as pus filled raised lesion.this would require to get a pus culture and sensitivity done to find any resistant organism and to treat accordingly. I would suggest you to meet your dermatologist for diagnosis and its treatment. I don t think that treatment for MRSA has to do anything with it. Both look purely co-incidental events to me Thanks Dr Jyoti Gupta