This person has scars, pits, and blackheads from hidradenitis suppurativa. Hidradenitis suppurativa often involves the buttocks and skin folds of the groin. Draining cysts are seen in this close-up photograph. Scars can form from hidradenitis suppurativa. Inflamed cysts can be very tender in hidradenitis suppurativa.
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Hidradenitis Suppurativa  Information for adults

Picture of Hidradenitis Suppurativa: This person has scars, pits, and blackheads from hidradenitis suppurativa. Divider line
This person has scars, pits, and blackheads from hidradenitis suppurativa.
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Treatments Your Provider May Prescribe
Your doctor may prescribe a topical antibiotic solution for mild areas or a long course of oral antibiotics to treat more severe areas. Your doctor may also send drainage for laboratory analysis to make sure that you are on the appropriate antibiotics. You may be given an injection of steroids into the deep, painful hidradenitis suppurativa lesions. If excessive hormones are thought to be the problem in a woman, she may be prescribed hormonal therapy. Oral tretinoin, used in severe acne, may be used to treat plugged sweat glands and keep them from plugging in the future. Steroids and immunosuppressive medications may be used in severe cases.

Surgical removal is often the ideal treatment for severe cases of hidradenitis suppurativa that continue to come back.

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Last Modified: 16 Jul 2009
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