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If a boil pops should i squeeze it?

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Dr. Michael Ein answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

No: Soak the boil with cotton balls in hot salt water for 15 minutes every few hours. Use 1 table spoon salt in 1 liter of water. This will draw the rest of the pus out. Squeezing it risks squeezing the pus deeper into the tissues.

Dr Gelin agreed

Answered 10/15/2013

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