Redness and pain after shaving underarms may be caused by local injury, bacterial infection and other reasons. It can be solved by local disinfection and medication as prescribed by the doctor, such as erythromycin ointment, fusidic acid cream and other antibiotic drugs.
1. Local injury: may be due to underarm shaving led to skin damage, sweat stimulation of local skin, resulting in redness and pain after underarm shaving. You should keep the local cleanliness and hygiene, wash the local skin with water, apply iodophor to sterilize it, and then apply antibiotic drugs such as erythromycin ointment as prescribed by the doctor to prevent infection, so as to alleviate the uncomfortable symptoms of redness and pain.
2. Bacterial infection: After shaving the underarms, do not pay attention to local hygiene and care, so that bacteria invade the skin leading to infection, thus appearing redness and pain after shaving the underarms. You can apply fusidic acid cream, or oral amoxicillin capsules and other antibiotic drugs to play the role of anti-inflammatory and bactericidal, so as to alleviate the discomfort of redness and pain.
If the patient’s armpit redness and pain after shaving, such as the symptoms have not been relieved, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, under the guidance of the doctor for treatment, the use of medication in accordance with the doctor’s instructions, so as not to aggravate the symptoms of self-treatment.