Treatment for folliculitis on the neck includes medication, physical therapy, and surgery, and patients should follow their doctor’s instructions.
Folliculitis is a common inflammatory skin disease of the hair follicle, commonly due to bacterial infection, fungal infection and so on. The common clinical manifestations of patients are red papules around the hair follicles, sometimes pus, itching, pain and other symptoms.
1. Drug treatment: patients can follow the doctor’s instructions to apply antibiotic drugs, antifungal drugs, etc. for treatment. Antibiotics are mainly for various bacterial infections caused by folliculitis, the drugs are mupirocin ointment, amoxicillin and so on. Antifungal drugs are used for follicular inflammatory lesions caused by fungal infections, drugs such as miconazole cream, fluconazole.
2. Physical therapy: Physical therapy includes ultra-short wave, far-infrared ray irradiation, photodynamic therapy, etc., which has the effect of anti-inflammatory, analgesic and anti-infection.
3. Surgical treatment: For boils and carbuncles with advanced suppuration and ruptured ulcers, doctors will perform surgical incision and drainage to drain out the pus. For hard nodular and large folliculitis hard lumps on the neck, they can be surgically removed or treated with skin grafts.
If the symptoms of folliculitis on the neck are more serious or do not get better for a long time, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, the patient should follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment, do not blindly treat their own, so as to avoid delaying the condition or causing adverse reactions.