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can cause boils and, in rare instances, serious skin infections. Bacteria from folliculitis can enter the blood stream and travel to other parts of the body.
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What are the characteristics of folliculitis?
Small, yellowish-white blister-like lumps (pustules) surrounded by narrow red rings are usually present with both bacterial folliculitis and fungal folliculitis. Hair can grow through or alongside of the pustules, which sometimes ooze blood-stained pus
How is folliculitis diagnosed?
based on the patient's medical history and observations. Laboratory analysis of the substance drained from a pustule can be used to distinguish bacterial folliculitis from fungal folliculitis.
What causes folliculitis?
Bacteria does. Hormones can to. Folliculitis has nothing to do with internal organs or anything like that.
How do you cure folliculitis?
you cant
Can folliculitis cause a false positive hsv2 result?
No, folliculitis will note cause a false positive HSV2 result.
What is the prognosis for patients with folliculitis?
If properly treated, the symptoms of bacterial folliculitis generally disappear in about two weeks. Fungal folliculitis should clear up within six weeks. But it can worsen if the condition is misdiagnosed
How can you tell the difference between Staphylococcal folliculitis and Pseudomonas folliculitis?
Telling the DifferenceYou can tell the difference by the area of the body that is affected.
What are the signs and complications of MRSA?
MRSA can cause skin infections like boils, carbuncles. Hair infections like folliculitis, lung infections like pneumonia. Patients present with high fever, malaise, red colored streaks on skin etc. Untreated infections can lead Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome, necrotising folliculitis etc.
You used to wear your du-rag alot and then a bump has appeared and now it wont go away it used to be kinda big but then some fluid leaked out now its small but your hair fell out where the bump what i?
In my case, the bumps turned into something resembling large pimples. Go Google "folliculitis." Here's what wikipedia has to say on the subject: "Folliculitis is the inflammation of one or more hair follicles. Folliculitis starts when hair follicles are damaged by friction from clothing, an insect bite, blockage of the follicle, shaving, or braids too tight and too close to the scalp. In most cases of folliculitis, the damaged follicles are then infected with the bacterium Staphylococcus." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folliculitis Sometimes medical treatment is necessary, so consider talking to your doctor.
What are two disease caused by bacteria are?
impetigo and folliculitis
Does folliculitis show is your blood test?
no. folliculitis is when the root of hairs have a tendency to clog with oil or dead skin cells to cause bumps. this is strictly a skin thing and nothing more.
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Sometimes mountains. They lead to oceans.
