Animal Lintex for people?

Kokopelli

Kokopelli

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This is going to sound silly but I have an abscess in my belly piercing and having been to the doctors and nothing working after many ABs and lotions do you think poulticing it could help?

Could it do any harm?

Bit random I know especially for a Sat night! :p
 
Well there's already a hole as the piercing is still in so no need for incision then drain.

Doctor has been rubbish though has made me feel awfully guilty for having the piercing in the first place and everything we've tried hasn't helped which sucks.
 
Just a thought, I got my bell pierced about 15 years ago, I got a bad infection because it turns out I am allergic to nickel , I had tried everything but until I put in titanium nothing changed.

Ps I would not experiment with anything
 
I have often cut off a bit of Animalintex and used on me and OH lol!! works just fine, infected toe nail was quite spectacular, just wet with boiling water, cool to bearable, apply and stick some plaster over the top to hold it on, check again in the morning & re apply if necessary :-)
 
Have tried everything with piercing every single bit of metal available, antibiotics and so many solutions for it but nothing has worked.

I'm really tempted to do a poultice. It can't make it any worse atm. :p
 
I put an animal lintex poultice on my sons arm a couple of nights ago, and wrapped it in vetwrap! He has what seems to be an infected hair follicle, whilst the poultice didn't draw anything out it did ease the discomfort . He went to the chemists to ask for advice and they told him just to leave it, if its still looking angry next week I might take him to the vet. :p
 
I used it for a badly swollen leg after a nasty insect bite and couldn't believe how good the result was - never, thankfully, had to use it in a horse so I wasn't sure if it would work but it was great :)
 
OK so I am an expert on this kind of thing.. bow down to me and listen to my advice lol

Daughter is a toenail picker, I can honestly say I have never cut her toenails in 11 years!! anyway this has resulted in infected toes, like real pus ridden jobs, one particular bad time she had 2 courses of antibiotics and it just wasn't shifting it soooo......

I did some bread poultice on it ( basically put boiling water on bread, squeezed water out and put it on infection as hot as she could bear, and repeated for a bit..... then dressed it with "drawing cream" Magnesium Sulphate.... its brilliant stuff!!!! Have given my pot away to a needy friend with an infected area and its done wonders for her too... just looking and i see Boots do it!

http://www.boots.com/en/Boots-magnesium-sulphate-paste-50g_865677/
 
Thanks for tips DD, I am a bit worried with a bread poultice if some crumbs flake away and get caught in piercing and irritate it.

Drawing cream sounds fab will go get a pot I think. :)
 
i used it on my leg and it did an amazing job! Left a bloody great big hole in my leg for a while though - most unattractive! Also guys gold label wondergel really is brilliant if you happen to have any cuts that might scar ;)
 
I had the same issue koko - infected belly piercing that wouldn't heal. In the end had to remove piercing and allow it to close up. Since I had tried for so long to get it to heal with the bar in it and the infection was there for so long I had a lot of dead tissue inside (it wasn't visible - I just had a red and slightly tender area around piercing, not even any pus) Now have a hideous scar due to the necrosis. I'd advise you remove it, it isn't worth the scarring
 
You can't remove it as that will trap the infection inside and make it worse. I'm off to buy a plastic bar tomorrow and see if that helps and have had a poultice on it all day today and for the first time in weeks I'm not in pain. :)
 
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