ABSCESS
An abscess is a painful collection of pus, usually caused by a bacterial infection. Abscesses can develop anywhere in the body.
Two types of abscess(in general , there are many others abscess as well which will not be discussed in this article):
· skin abscesses – which develop under the skin
· internal abscesses – which develop inside the body, in an organ or in the spaces between organs
Symptoms of an abscess
· A skin abscess often appears as a swollen, pus-filled lump under the surface of the skin. You may also have other symptoms of an infection, such as a high temperature (fever) and chills.
Causes of abscesses
Most abscesses are caused by a bacterial infection.
When bacteria enter your body, your immune system sends infection-fighting white blood cells to the affected area.
As the white blood cells attack the bacteria, some nearby tissue dies, creating a hole which then fills with pus to form an abscess. The pus contains a mixture of dead tissue, white blood cells and bacteria.
Preventing a skin abscess
You can reduce the risk of bacteria spreading by following these tips and as a result you will also redece the risk of getting a abscess :
- washing your hands regularly
- encouraging people in your family to wash their hands regularly
- using separate towels and not sharing baths
- waiting until your skin abscess is fully treated and healed before using any communal equipment, such as gym equipment, etc.
IMP TIP-
Don't squeeze the pus out of the abscess yourself, because this can easily spread the bacteria to other areas of your skin. If you use tissues to wipe any pus away from your abscess, dispose of them straight away to avoid germs spreading. Wash your hands after you've disposed of the tissues.
HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES FOR ABSCESS –
Particular indications:
1. Angustura vera
Abscess of the ankle-joint (Raue).
2.Apis mellifica
Diffuse inflammation of the cellular tissues, ending in their destruction: stinging, burning pains in incipient abscesses.
3.Arnica montana
Hot, hard and shining swelling; pricking pains and dull stitches in the part; general sinking of strength.
4. Arsenicum album
Intolerable burning pains during the fever or when the abscess threatens to become gangrenous; pus copious, bloody, corroding, ichorous, watery, and of a putrid smell; great debility, muscular prostration, sleeplessness and restlessness.5.Asafoetida
Abscesses discharging a colorless, serous pus, or thin, foetid ichor; violent pains on contact and great sensitiveness of the adjoining parts; intermittent pulsations in the tumor, with darting, tearing pains, somewhat relieved by pressure.
6.Belladonna
Pressure, burning and stinging in abscess; scarlet redness and hot swelling; pus scanty, cheesy and flocculent; great sensitiveness to cold air. Hepatic abscess, or other glandular abscesses.
7. Bryonia alba
9.Calendula officinalis
Induration after surgical operations, followed by suppuration; the wound looks raw and inflamed, with stinging pains, followed by throbbing, as if it would suppurate; profuse and exhausting suppuration in traumatic abscess.
10. Chamomilla
Abscess very hot and painful, with clear, serous suppuration, not relieved by Ars.
11.Cocculus indicus
Superficial abscess just above root of nail of right little toe, pain as if a hot iron went into it on raising foot from ground in walking.
12. Hepar sulphur
Lacerating and pricking pains in the tumors; throbbing and beating in the abscess; the skin over the abscess is highly inflamed, hard, hot and swelling; pus scanty, bloody, corroding, smelling like old cheese; pains worse at night and by exposure to cold.
13.Mercurius solubilis
Slowly suppurating abscesses Burning redness of the skin, with prickling and tingling sensation; hard, hot, inflammatory swelling; pressing from within outward; pulsating pains; pus copious, bloody, corroding, thin and watery; or all these characters, but scanty.14.Mezereum
For abscesses of fibrous parts or of tendons, or for abscesses arising from the abuse of Mercury.
15.Silicea terra
It controls the suppurative process; seeming to mature processes when desired, and certainly reducing excessive suppuration to moderate limits. Pains of abscess are either burning, cutting, itching, prickling or pulsative. Pus copious or scanty, bloody brownish, corroding, gelatinous, gray or greenish, putrid, thin and watery, or yellow. After matter has been discharged, it promotes granulation and cicatrization.
16. Sulphur
Chronic abscess, tendency to suppuration, dependent upon a psoric or scrofulous diathesis; pains throbbing or stinging, and after evacuation of the pus there is a tendency to ulceration.
17.Tarentula cubensis
Abscesses, exceedingly painful and inflamed, with tendency to gangrene and affecting the neighboring glands, which are swollen, indurated and painful.
18.Phosphorus
Lymphatic abscesses, full of fistulae; callous feeling; hectic fever; pus copious and yellow.
19.Pulsatilla pratensis
The abscess bleeds readily, with stinging and cutting pains; bluish-red swelling (varices) in the surrounding parts, with itching, stinging and burning pains; abscesses after violent and long-continued inflammations; pus bloody or copious, greenish or yellow.
20. Rhus toxicodendron
Abscesses of axillary or parotid glands, swelling painful to touch, and discharging a bloody-serous pus, with stinging and gnawing pains. Smooth, red and shining swellings, the inflamed skin being covered with little painful white vesicles.
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