What does carbuncle mean

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Many diseases are caused by certain bacterial or fungal infections, and some diseases gradually become more serious from fever and headache. This tells you not to take headache and fever seriously, which may cause carbuncle. Let's talk about what carbuncle means.

What does carbuncle mean

First, the disease is caused by Staphylococcus aureus infection of multiple deep infection near the hair follicle. It often occurs in people with low resistance, such as diabetes, obesity, bad health habits and immune deficiency. The clinical manifestations were large infiltrative purplish erythema, visible purulent, tissue necrosis.

Second: the disease is accompanied by fever, chills, headache, loss of appetite and other systemic symptoms, severe cases can be secondary to toxemia, sepsis, leading to death. Carbuncle is caused by exogenous pathogenic toxin, or trauma poisoning, or damp heat fire poison, which leads to discord between Ying and Wei, stagnation of Qi and blood, blockage of meridians and collaterals. If the external pathogenic wind and wind heat lead to phlegm accumulation in Shaoyang and Yangming, then the neck carbuncle.

Third: the disease mostly occurs in adults with low resistance, initially diffuse infiltrative purplish erythema, surface tension and bright, obvious tenderness, after the local emergence of multiple pus head, there are more pus thrombus and bloody secretion discharge, accompanied by tissue necrosis and ulcer formation, visible sinus, local lymph node enlargement. Clinically, patients with pulsatile pain can be accompanied by fever, chills, headache, loss of appetite and other systemic symptoms.

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In this way, carbuncle is also a more serious disease, it will affect the patient's resistance, so there will be some like necrotic cells excreted from it, serious words may also cause sepsis. Therefore, patients must be treated as soon as possible to avoid life-threatening due to improper treatment.