Abscesses with purulent contents, depending on the clinical picture, may vary in size, soreness, and the number of secretions. They can appear in body area, on 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 health 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 hands, legs, back, buttocks, abdomen - these are most often boils or carbuncles. On the fingers of the limbs, panaritium often jumps up.
Furuncle is an acute purulent inflammation of the follicle, sebaceous gland and the surrounding area of the skin.
It can develop on any part of the body that has hair, with the exception of the palms and soles, where there are no follicles. The face, back of the head, inguinal regions, buttocks, and the dorsum of the forearms are the most "favorite" places for localization of boils. The most common pathogen is staphylococcus. The appearance of furunculosis is preceded by frequent contamination and friction of the skin on clothing, mechanical damage and trauma to surrounding objects. If dandruff or particles of seborrheic dermatitis enter the microcrack in the epidermis, it can also provoke the appearance of an abscess. People with diabetes and other endocrine and autoimmune diseases are more prone to boils.
A carbuncle is several boils connected to each other under the skin in multiple strokes. Folk remedies for abscesses, if it is 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 bigger health problems.
Panaritium most often develops on the third phalanx of the fingers due to inflammation of the burr. To avoid its appearance, you should wash your hands thoroughly and use only proven tools pre-treated with alcohol tincture during manicure.
List of the most effective treatments at home
The main goal in the treatment of boils, carbuncles and panaritium is to let purulent contents come out precisely, not inside. For this, an abscess should be treated with folk remedies, but in no case should it be squeezed out. When trying to squeeze out independently, pus most often goes deep inside, as a result of which sepsis develops or even an even more complex infection of the blood. In a hospital environment, the surgeon can dissect with a scalpel or other special instruments - the main condition when performing such an operation is complete sterility.
The most effective methods of treatment of abscesses folk remedies:
- warming with hot salt and flour;
- applying to the boil of baked onions;
- lotions of chopped garlic;
- homemade ointment from honey;
- compresses from the juice of fleshy aloe leaves;
- treatment of boils and panaritium with potatoes;
- baths and steaming with the help of herbal infusions.
Warming with salt and flour
The method has earned popularity in the Soviet years. This simple folk remedy for an abscess on the finger, back or stomach can be used by both adults and children. It helps an abscess to mature faster and go out to a purulent root.
- Prepare a small bag in advance from a dense natural fabric (you can use double calico).
- Anneal salt or flour in a pan. Safety precautions should be followed at the same time, as it is easy to burn yourself. In order not to get a burn, after calcination leave the salt for a while on the stove - cool.
- Pour the heated salt or flour into a bag, make sure that the contents do not spill out from there.
- Attach to a sore spot and wait until it cools completely (it usually takes about twenty to thirty minutes), then repeat the procedure again.
Folk remedies for abscesses using salt are rather traumatic (due to the possibility of getting burned). However, nevertheless, they are one of the best. Only one folk remedy for abscesses can compare in speed of "pulling" purulent contents outward with them - this is baked onion. Since the main goal of treating both boils and panaritiums is to extract the purulent shaft outward, the methods of softening and moisturizing the skin are not suitable for dealing with abscesses. The ideal way to "pull" the rod out.
Baked onions - the number 1 remedy in the fight against abscesses
This method also became popular in the Soviet years and is still the No. 1 tool in the fight against purulent abscesses. For the procedure, you need an ordinary onion. Most often this is enough - after just a few procedures, the rest of the folk remedies for purulent abscesses are not needed, as the contents come out. In this case, it is impossible to extrude or otherwise mechanically affect the source of inflammation.
- Cut a slice from the onion and heat it over an open fire or in the oven. As a result, its edges should be slightly tan, and the core should be slightly baked. In this case, the bulb should not be charred.
- Attach 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 should be about twenty to thirty minutes, then change the bandage to a new one. In most cases, it requires five to six such compresses in order for the purulent rod to come out.
Onions have powerful disinfecting properties, and often patients are surprised - why bake it? In fact, for the treatment of abscesses, it is baked onions that are required, raw is much less effective.
This folk remedy for an abscess on the leg, arm, back, stomach, body and even the face can be used many times in a row. It is completely safe, has no side effects and almost never provokes the appearance of an allergic reaction.
Propolis & Honey Ointment
This folk remedy for an abscess on a finger can be easily prepared at home. By action, it is no worse than pharmacy creams and ointments for panaritium. It has a disinfecting and anti-inflammatory effect. You can alternate the use of this ointment with the use of baked onions or hot salt 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 in a pharmacy or make it yourself from ready-made propolis and vodka.
- Mix equal proportions of propolis tincture, fresh honey and petroleum jelly.
- Apply a thin layer on the abscess itself and the area of skin around it. A minute after application, the patient will feel relief: the pain, burning and itching will pass, and it will be possible to do household chores, forgetting for a while about the abscess.
Aloe Vera Treatment
Aloe grows in almost every housewife. This is a perennial plant with fleshy leaves, inside of which there 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 - a natural ingredient often provokes the development of an allergic reaction, as a result of which burning and itching in the abscess area may intensify. Optimally, before starting to use aloe juice, test your skin for allergies and tolerance - apply a few drops to the inner fold of the elbow, and if within a few hours there is no irritation on the skin, you can safely use aloe to treat abscesses.
A leaf should be torn closer to the ground - about one centimeter from the main stem. Squeeze out thick juice on a spoon and moisten it with a boil or panaritium. Secure with a cotton pad soaked in Chlorhexidine or any other disinfectant. Hold the lotion for about twenty minutes, then change to a new one in the same way.
Potato juice treatment: compresses and ointment
Potato juice can be used in pure form, or you can prepare an ointment with it. It has excellent astringent properties, a mild analgesic and antibacterial effect. Of course, potato juice cannot replace the antibiotic ointment, but it can help get rid of pain and accelerate the maturation of boils and panaritium. Potato juice is one of the most effective methods of treatment with folk remedies for an abscess on the finger.
- The ointment should be prepared in this way: mix equal amounts of petroleum jelly, raw potato juice, aloe juice, honey. If there is no aloe in the house - it does not matter, you can not include this ingredient in the composition of the ointment. Thoroughly mix the ointment to a homogeneous mass and apply to the finger (or another area affected by furunculosis) several times a day - you can either as a compress or just on the skin.
- Compresses from potato juice should be done like this: grate a peeled tuber on a fine grater and squeeze the juice. Soak a cotton pad through them and attach to the abscess. Secure with a bandage and band-aid. leave for an hour or two. Then the compress must be changed to fresh - otherwise putrefactive bacteria form under the dressing, 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 imply using the juice of a fresh nettle stalk, as well as a bath or compress from the decoction of this plant. To get rid of the abscess, you should generously grease the damaged area with nettle juice, and squeeze it out in special gloves so as not to get a burn.
This tool can be combined with other folk remedies for an abscess on the toe. Such a complex effect will help get rid of purulent formation on the fingers and toes in just two to three days. For example, in the morning and in the evening - salt heating, in the afternoon - two compresses of baked onions, and in the interval between these manipulations just grease the abscess with nettle juice.
Treatment of a boil with honey and flour
Mix 1 tbsp. l butter, vodka, honey and flour. It will result in a suspension of medium density, reminiscent of ordinary pharmacy ointments. If you wish, you can add more vodka - you get an infusion. Put the ointment on gauze and attach to a sore spot for 5-6 hours. Usually everything goes 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 laundry soap grated (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 medium-thick cake. This cake is placed on boils and boils. Do not press too hard: light contact of the sore spot with the healing cake is enough.
Folk remedies for boils on the body with honey in the composition have a disinfecting and anti-inflammatory effect. The moisturizing effect of butter helps to alleviate pain, burning and itching.
Treatment of boils with garlic compresses
The juice of raw garlic cloves has established itself as an anti-inflammatory agent many centuries ago. Relieves swelling, itching, burning, helps to remove the purulent stem of the boil out. Of the minuses - a bitter aftertaste does not allow the use of garlic when boiling over the gums.
Folk remedies include the addition of pure garlic juice to various compresses. For example, a tortilla of honey and butter can be enriched with garlic juice.
And you can mix half a teaspoon of garlic juice and as much 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 it with the wet side on the reddened part of your finger or body, where, on suspicion of the patient, a boil can form. As a rule, this is quite enough - the purulent rod dissolves before it has formed. As a result, one does not even have 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 the body of a child, then it is more difficult to treat. Most children are very afraid of all kinds of compresses and other medical manipulations, and convincing them of the painlessness of such a procedure can be extremely difficult. There is a solution - baths from infusions of medicinal herbs will help get rid of boils in the early stages. If a panaritium has matured on the baby’s finger, you can use a warm bath several times a day with the addition of herbal infusions. In a few days, the manifestations of the disease will disappear.
- A tablespoon of nettle, the same amount of crushed dry yarrow and chamomile, pour 500 ml of water and boil over low heat for ten minutes. Allow to cool. To make baths for a sore spot - if these are legs, you can make a sitz bath. If these are hands, you can simply lower them to the elbow (or just the hands, there is an abscess on the finger) in a warm infusion. If the abscess is on the gum - you can rinse your mouth several times a day with the infusion obtained.
- 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 allows you to quickly remove puffiness, reduce inflammation and pain from the abscess. Alas, such baths will not accelerate the maturation of the root of the boil. But the patient will receive relief from the care of discomfort and a feeling of tightness of the skin.
An interesting way for which you do not need time for a bath. Boil a few teaspoons (3-4) of dry pharmacy 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 overly cool the skin. Such ice therapy from the infusion of celandine will help get rid of the feeling of tightness of the skin at the site of the abscess, to alleviate itching and burning. As a result, the boil matures faster. If you combine the treatment with ice or baths with compresses from baked onions and warming with salt - you can get rid of a boil or panaritium in a couple of days.