Carbuncle

The carbuncle ( boil ) is a deep and usually very painful infection of several adjacent hair follicles or the confluence of several adjacent boil.

Skin and subcutaneous tissue are often infiltrated hard as a board. There will be numerous Gewebseinschmelzungen and without therapy, spontaneous, often sieve-like skin penetrations, in addition, the lymphatic vessels are inflamed ( lymphangitis ). Fever and general symptoms are usually present. Common sites are the neck, back, shoulders, hips and thighs.

Caused a carbuncle like most skin and soft tissue infections caused by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus. It is important that Carbuncle of the related conditions ( erythrasma, phlegmon, etc. ) to define, as these are often caused by other germs, accordingly, require a different antibiotic treatment or to tend traversal ( streptococci) is.

Therapy

The surgical therapy must be sought. In addition, may be useful systemic antibiotic coverage.

Definitely not a carbuncle itself should be treated as a new infection or spreading of pathogens can not be excluded.

Carbuncle of skin anthrax

The Carbuncle of skin anthrax are usually painless. The anthrax carbuncle is of a bluish black color, of which the name of the anthrax - Medical anthrax, anthrax from Greek = coal - has its origin.

This disease is associated with a distinct feeling of illness, although the cutaneous form is the manifestation of anthrax with the lowest mortality. Five to 20 percent of untreated patients die.