Folliculitis symptoms

summary

When folliculitis occurs, the whole hair follicle is usually infected by bacteria, which can cause a kind of suppurative inflammation. In the early stage of the disease, it is mainly manifested as some red papules, and then these papules will grow slowly, and finally become an isolated small abscess, which will make the patient feel pain. Folliculitis is most likely to occur in the hairy parts of the adult body. Of course, sometimes folliculitis may occur in children's forehead. Folliculitis in hair can lead to alopecia.

Folliculitis symptoms

Folliculitis usually forms multiple abscesses. These abscesses are scattered and isolated. Patients will feel slight pain. Hair will gradually fall off at the site of folliculitis, and finally baldness will occur. If it occurs in the head of folliculitis, it will lead to alopecia areata as ugly scalp bare.

The abscess caused by folliculitis will scab in about a week, then fall off, and finally get better. However, folliculitis, a skin disease, is often repeated, and some people will not fully recover after years of treatment. Folliculitis can also lead to further infection, this time it is easy to form furuncle or carbuncle, but also in the skin above leaving a very ugly scar.

Folliculitis this skin disease caused by the abscess at the beginning is in the hair follicle mouth, is generally a kind of internal more substantial abscess, but the abscess after further development, internal will appear some pus, there will be a ring of red halo around the abscess. In the middle and late stages, these abscesses dry and scab.

matters needing attention

Folliculitis is mainly caused by Staphylococcus infection. So in daily life must pay attention to cleaning, but also need to pay attention to enhance their resistance, so that they can resist staphylococcal infection, so it will not lead to folliculitis.