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How long before boils go away?
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Get treatment: Boils are usually skin infections and should be treated with antibiotics. There are other disorders that may look like boils but may represent auto-immune disease. It would be prudent to see your doctor asap for an evaluation and treatment. Do not just wait for these things to go away. See this site for info. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/pmh0002445/.
Answered 2/1/2018
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