Patient's Query
Hello doctor,
I am a 29-year-old male and had sexual intercourse with protection but actively did oral sex one year before. I am onboard a ship now, and I have a follicular abscess infection. I am treated with antibiotics, and it goes away with that and comes back after 15 to 20 days. Abscess keeps forming in the same place (below the left leg knee) and sometimes on the right leg. I had shivering and fever for a few days and had abdominal cramps and body aches. There is no diarrhea. I still have two months to go home and get tested. I am so worried about this.
Hello,
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Protected sex is very safe sex. The abscess may be due to any other reason. It is not HIV and has nothing to do with sex.
Until you arrive home, I am prescribing oral antibiotics, anti-inflammatory to take with antacids, and anti-allergic medicines.
1) Tablet Augmentine Duo (Amoxicillin and Clavulanic Acid) 625 three times.
2) Tablet Zerodol-SP (Aceclofenac, Paracetamol, and Serratiopeptidase) three times.
3) Tablet Chymoral Forte (Trypsin-Chymotrypsin) three times.
4) Capsule Pan D (Domperidone and Pantoprazole) one on an empty stomach.
5) Tablet Montek LC (Levocetirizine and Montelukast) one at night.
Take all the above medications for 5 to 7 days. Hot fomentation with Boric Acid or Betadine (Povidone-Iodine) solution. Press it, although pain is there, so that all pus comes out. When pus comes out locally, apply Betadine ointment and Fucidine (Sodium Fusidate) ointment in a 1:1 ratio. Keep dressing the abscess every day.
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