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I have been getting boils alot back to back. where i have to go to hospital to have them drained. what can i do to pervent it from coming back?
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Chlorehexidine: usually I send my patients to Infectious disease clinic to get tested and make sure they have no immunodeficiency causing the recurrence plus they poet there a script for chlorhexidine topical to clean all the skin area once a week or so which could help to reduce the recurrence
Answered 7/12/2015
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