You have had a drain placed in an abscess, which you will need to care for until it is removed. This will include flushing the tube daily as well as cleaning the tube site and changing the dressing.

Every year between four and five million Americans suffer from chronic non-healing wounds, many caused by diabetes, poor circulation, pressure ulcers or other conditions. Proper wound care is ...

Draining jaw lesion following treatment for a dental abscess A 63-year-old woman was treated for a dental abscess on her right lower jaw One month ago, a 63-year-old woman was treated for a dental ...

Abdominal abscesses can be life threatening without prompt medical attention. Early diagnosis and treatment are essential in preventing serious complications. An abdominal abscess is a collection of ...

WHEN the inside of your mouth gets hurt or irritated, bacteria may enter and cause an infection. Sometimes you will see a painful swelling filled with pus (a thick, yellowish fluid). If the pus is ...

In a new report from the New England Journal of Medicine, two Los Angeles-based UCLA physicians have presented best-practice guidelines for caring for skin abscesses resulting from community-acquired ...

Listen, we warned you. You can’t unsee it now! Abscesses are caused by bacteria entering into a mouth injury. The wound will swell and produce pus. But if there’s no way for the pus to drain, the ...

For the first time, endoscopic drainage was performed in Mumbai in a HIV-positive patient who had developed liver abscess due to fungal infection. A 21-year-old boy was rushed to a hospital in Mumbai ...

A gruesome new medical programme showed stomach-churning scenes of a painful buttock abscess being drained for half an hour. Footage shot for Quest Red's new medical show, This Came Out Of Me, showed ...

Our patient’s dental sinus was a form of cervicofacial actinomycosis, the most common Actinomyces infection in humans. Cervicofacial actinomycosis (or “lumpy jaw”) is typically a slowly progressive ...