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What is the best strategy to stop folliculitis from returning back after antibiotics treatment stops it once? i hear it can return back again & again
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No tight clothing: avoid tight clothing, keep dry and clean, if it is appears on regions where you shave, make sure you use clean razor and wash thoroghly an anti-bacterial soap should help as well
Answered 11/3/2018
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