Abscesses with purulent contents, depending on the clinical picture, may differ in size, pain, amount of discharge. They can appear on the body area, on the arms or legs. Folk remedies for abscesses help get rid of the problem in a short time and return the skin to a clean and silky appearance. In order not to harm your he alth even more, you should follow some rules when treating at home.
What are abscesses on the body and why do they appear
Purulent inflammation on the skin of the arms, legs, back, buttocks, abdomen - these are most often boils or carbuncles. Felon jumps more often on the fingers of the limbs.
Furuncle is an acute purulent inflammation of the follicle, sebaceous gland and the surrounding area of the skin.
Can develop on any part of the body that has hair, except for the palms and soles, where there are no follicles. face, neck,inguinal regions, buttocks, the back surface of the forearms are the most "favorite" places for the localization of boils. The most common pathogen is staphylococcus aureus. The appearance of furunculosis is preceded by frequent contamination and friction of the skin on clothing, mechanical damage and injury to surrounding objects. Getting into a microcrack in the epidermis of dandruff or particles of seborrheic dermatitis can also provoke the appearance of an abscess. People with diabetes and other endocrine and autoimmune diseases are more prone to boils.
Carbuncle is a number of boils connected to each other under the skin in multiple passages. Folk remedies for abscesses, if they are carbuncles, are powerless. Professional pharmaceutical therapy is required, the only way to completely get rid of all the foci and at the same time not get even more he alth problems.
Panaritium most often develops on the third phalanx of the fingers due to inflammation of the hangnail. To avoid its appearance, you should wash your hands thoroughly and use only proven tools, pre-treated with alcohol tincture, when manicure.
List of the most effective home treatments
The main goal in the treatment of boils, carbuncles and panaritium is to let the purulent contents come out exactly outside, and not inside. For this, an abscess should be treated with folk remedies, but in no case should it be squeezed out. When trying to self-squeeze out, the pus most often goes deep inside, as a result of whichsepsis or even more complex blood poisoning develops. In a hospital, the surgeon can make a dissection with a scalpel or other special instruments - the main condition for performing such an operation is complete sterility.
The most effective methods of treating abscesses with folk remedies:
- heating with hot s alt and flour;
- applying a baked onion to a boil;
- minced garlic lotions;
- homemade honey ointment;
- compresses from the juice of the fleshy leaves of aloe;
- treatment of boils and felon with potatoes;
- baths and steaming with herbal infusions.
Heating with s alt and flour
The method has earned popularity back in the Soviet years. This simple folk remedy for an abscess on a finger, back or stomach can be used by both adults and children. Helps the abscess to ripen faster and get the purulent root out.
- Prepare a small bag of dense natural fabric in advance (you can use calico folded in half).
- Ignite s alt or flour in a pan. Be sure to follow safety precautions while doing this, as you can easily get burned. In order not to get burned, after calcining, leave the s alt for a while on the stove - cool down.
- Pour heated s alt or flour into a bag, make sure that the contents do not spill out.
- Apply to a sore spot and wait for it to cool completely (usually thistakes about twenty to thirty minutes), then repeat the procedure again.
Folk remedies for abscesses using s alt are quite traumatic (because of the possibility of getting burned). However, they are nonetheless one of the best. Only one folk remedy for abscesses can compare with them in terms of the speed of "pulling" the purulent contents outward - this is a baked onion. Since the main goal of treating both boils and felons is to extract the purulent rod outward, the methods of softening and moisturizing the skin are not suitable for dealing with abscesses. Ideal ways to "pull" the rod out.
Baked onion is the number 1 remedy in the fight against abscesses
This method also became popular in the Soviet years and is still the 1 remedy in the fight against purulent abscesses. For the procedure, you will need an ordinary onion. Most often, this is enough - after several procedures, the rest of the folk remedies for purulent abscesses are not needed, since the contents come out. At the same time, it is impossible to squeeze out or otherwise mechanically act on the source of inflammation.
- Cut a slice from an onion and heat it over an open fire or in the oven. As a result, its edges should be slightly scorched, and the core should be slightly baked. In this case, the bulb should not be burnt.
- Apply a hot, not yet cooled piece to the boil. Fix in one place with a cotton pad, then with adhesive tape.
- Keep such a compress for about twenty to thirty minutes, then change the bandage to a new one. ATin most cases, five or six such compresses are required in order for the purulent rod to come out.
Onions have powerful disinfecting properties, and patients often wonder why they should be baked? In fact, it is baked onions that are required to treat boils, raw onions are much less effective.
This folk remedy for an abscess on the leg, arm, back, abdomen, torso and even the face can be used many times in a row. It is completely safe, has no side effects and almost never provokes an allergic reaction.
Ointment based on propolis and honey
This folk remedy for an abscess on the finger can be easily prepared at home. By action, it is no worse than pharmacy creams and ointments from panaritium. It has a disinfecting and anti-inflammatory effect. You can alternate the application of this ointment with the use of baked onions or hot s alt compresses. Such a combined action will relieve pain as much as possible and contribute to the speedy healing of the abscess.
- Buy alcohol tincture of propolis at the pharmacy or make it yourself from ready-made propolis and vodka.
- Mix equal proportions of propolis tincture, fresh honey and vaseline.
- Apply a thin layer on the abscess itself and the skin around it. Already a minute after application, the patient will feel relief: pain, burning and itching will pass, and it will be possible to do household chores, forgetting about the abscess for a while.
Treatment of abscesses withusing aloe
Aloe grows in almost every housewife. This is a perennial plant with fleshy leaves, inside of which is a thick, odorless and colorless juice. It has antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties. Aloe juice is a popular folk remedy for an abscess on the arm, leg, back.
It should be used with caution - the natural ingredient often provokes the development of an allergic reaction, which may increase the burning and itching in the area of the abscess. It is optimal before using aloe juice to test your skin for allergies and tolerance - apply a few drops to the inner bend of the elbow, and if there is no irritation on the skin within a few hours, you can safely use aloe to treat boils.
Tear off the leaf closer to the ground - about one centimeter from the main stem. Squeeze thick juice onto a spoon and moisten the furuncle or panaritium with plenty of it. Fix with a cotton pad soaked in "Chlorhexidine" or any other disinfectant liquid. Hold the lotion for about twenty minutes, then change to a new one in the same way.
Treatment with potato juice: compresses and ointment
Potato juice can be used in its pure form, or you can prepare an ointment with it. It has excellent astringent properties, mild analgesic and antibacterial action. Of course, potato juice cannot replace antibiotic ointment, but it can help get rid of pain and speed up the maturation of boils and panaritium. Potato juice is one of the most effective folk remedies for an abscess onfinger.
- The ointment should be prepared in this way: mix vaseline, raw potato juice, aloe juice, honey in equal proportions. If there is no aloe in the house - it does not matter, you can not include this ingredient in the ointment. Thoroughly mix the ointment until a homogeneous mass and apply to the finger (or other area affected by furunculosis) several times a day - you can use it as a compress or just on the skin.
- Compresses from potato juice should be done as follows: grate the peeled tuber on a fine grater and squeeze the juice. Wet them through a cotton pad and apply to the site of the abscess. Secure with a bandage and adhesive tape. leave for an hour or two. Then the compress must be changed to a fresh one - otherwise, putrefactive bacteria form under the bandage, which can aggravate the course of the disease.
Treatment of abscesses with nettle infusion
Nettle is a plant that has many medicinal properties. Folk remedies for an abscess on the finger involve both the use of the juice of a fresh nettle stem, and a bath or compress from the decoction of this plant. To get rid of an abscess, you should generously lubricate the damaged area with nettle juice, and squeeze it out with special gloves so as not to get burned.
This remedy can be combined with other folk remedies for an abscess on the toe. Such a complex effect will help get rid of a purulent formation on the fingers and toes in just two to three days. For example, in the morning and in the evening - s alt warming, at lunch - two compresses of baked onions, and in the interval between these manipulations, just lubricatenettle juice abscess.
Treatment of boils with honey and flour
Mix 1 tbsp. l. butter, vodka, honey and flour. You will get a suspension of medium density, reminiscent of ordinary pharmacy ointments. If desired, you can add more vodka - you get an infusion. Put the resulting ointment on gauze and attach to the sore spot for 5-6 hours. Usually everything goes away the first time, but if the abscess is large, then repeat the procedure.
An equally effective remedy for abscesses is a honey-soap cake. 100 g of honey and 100 g of grated laundry soap (choose one with a minimum of preservatives and flavorings). Melt in a water bath until a viscous homogeneous mass with a soapy honey aroma is obtained and combine with 100 g of flour to make a cake of medium density. Apply this cake on abscesses and boils. Do not press too hard: light contact of the sore spot with the healing lozenge is enough.
Folk remedies for abscesses on the body with honey in the composition have a disinfecting and anti-inflammatory effect. Butter's moisturizing action helps relieve pain, burning and itching.
Treatment of boils with garlic compresses
The juice of raw garlic cloves has proven itself as an anti-inflammatory agent for many centuries. Removes puffiness, itching, burning, promotes the withdrawal of the purulent core of the boil out. Of the minuses - a bitter aftertaste does not allow the use of garlic for gum abscess.
Folk remediesinvolve adding pure garlic juice to various compresses. For example, a cake made from honey and butter can be enriched with garlic juice.
And you can mix half a teaspoon of garlic juice and the same amount of aloe, and make such a compress. Its action will be simply anti-inflammatory, and analgesic and decongestant. Garlic helps especially well in the early stages of an abscess - you can simply cut a clove in half and wrap the wet side to the reddened area of \u200b\u200bthe finger or body, where, according to the patient, a boil may form. As a rule, this is quite enough - the purulent core resolves without having time to form. As a result, it is not even necessary to treat the disease, because it was possible to prevent its development.
Healing baths for the treatment of abscesses in children
If an abscess forms on a child's body, then it is more difficult to treat it. Most children are very afraid of all kinds of compresses and other medical procedures, and it can be extremely difficult to convince them of the painlessness of such a procedure. There is a solution - baths from infusions of medicinal herbs will help get rid of boils in the early stages. If a panaritium has ripened on the child's finger, you can use a warm bath with the addition of herbal infusions several times a day. Within a few days, the manifestations of the disease will disappear.
- A tablespoon of nettle, the same amount of chopped dry yarrow and chamomile pour 500 ml of water and boil over low heat for ten minutes. Let cool. Do baths for a sore spot - if it's legs, you can do a sitz bath. If thishands - you can simply lower them to the elbow (or only the hands, there is an abscess on the finger) in a warm infusion. If there is an abscess on the gum, you can rinse your mouth several times a day with the resulting infusion.
- A tablespoon of oak bark, two tablespoons of nettle and a sprig of mint pour a liter of water, boil for about fifteen minutes. Oak bark has excellent astringent properties: it very quickly allows you to remove swelling, reduce inflammation and pain from the site of an abscess. Alas, such baths will not accelerate the ripening of the boil root. But the patient will receive relief from the removal of discomfort and tightness of the skin.
An interesting way that doesn't take time for a bath. Boil a few teaspoons (3-4) of dry pharmaceutical celandine in a glass of water. To freeze. Apply an ice cube to the affected area for a short time - literally for a few seconds, do not over-cool the skin. Such therapy with ice from the infusion of celandine will help get rid of the feeling of tightness of the skin at the site of the abscess, alleviate itching and burning. As a result, the boil matures faster. If you combine treatment with ice or baths with baked onion compresses and heating with s alt, you can get rid of a boil or panaritium in a couple of days.
