I keep getting these boils in my groin area.i have to have them lanced. a er.dr. told me also i needed a antibiotic for my nose too. so he gave me.

MRSA: Methicillin resistant staph aureus;a nasty bacteria that can "colonize" our body and cause bad skin infections.These are not trivial, they can become very dangerous. Follow the dr's recommendations and try to eridicate the bug.

Sounds like staph: There are a few kinds of staph infections, a bacterial infection caused by staph aureous a bug that lives on the skin and can recurrently cause boils. The idea of the nose antibiotic (i assume your question is "why the nose antibiotic?") is to reduce the amount of staph in your nose where it often camps out. Hibiclens scrubs to your body may also help as does avoiding shaving in groin.

BACTROBAN NASAL: Recurring boils can happen with staph carriers. Treatment with nasal bactroban can less the number of outbreaks that a pt gets.

MRSA eradication: You probably have mrsa, a known super bug, or resistant staph infection. It usually hides in your body, mostly nose and keeps coming back, hard to get rid of it complete. It needs a specific course of antibiotics + local antibiotics applied to the nose in an attempt to eradicate the mrsa.