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AIBU?

To lance a boil?

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MaggieJoyBlunt · 04/07/2015 17:18

Behind my ear. It hurts

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MaggieJoyBlunt · 04/07/2015 17:19

Lancing a boil must be a 'thing' because it's a saying, right?

So; TCP, sterilised sewing needle, puncture both sides??

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jendot2 · 04/07/2015 17:21

I find boils don't go away until they have been lanced, popped, squeezed whatever. Clean hands, sterilised needle. Lots of TCP. Hurts like hell at the time but so much better afterwards!

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HermioneWeasley · 04/07/2015 17:24

Get it really hot first and have a supply of hot water available to continue to draw it out.

Yes, sterilised needle, clean the area, hot flannel on the boil then prick with needle and squeeeeeeze.

Where are you? I'll come and do it if you're local.

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HookedOnHooking · 04/07/2015 17:25

No no no. You are doing it all wrong.

First. Sound the

Second. Take photographs.

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elderfloweriver · 04/07/2015 17:25

Yes please video it I love stuff like this

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FadedRed · 04/07/2015 17:27

I'm with Hooked on this.
You are spoiling the experience for the rest of us, OP.

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QueefOfTheSporned · 04/07/2015 17:28

Did someone sound the Klaxon?

Oh, a boil! Lovely! You need hot flannels, a sterile needle and magnesium sulphate paste and a video camera

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Marcelinewhyareyousomean · 04/07/2015 17:28

There was a recommendation for a plaster that would draw out a boil overnight. I think it had silver nitrate in it.

(Killjoy)

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Ohwhatfuckeryisthis · 04/07/2015 17:28

Ooo a boil. Lovely, oh I mean poor you op. The secret is a kind of pulling apart whilst squeezing movement. You have mag sulphed to get maximum splattage I assume? and set up the lights and tripod

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FernGullysWoollyPully · 04/07/2015 17:29

Get a friend to film it help you.

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HookedOnHooking · 04/07/2015 17:29

Only once we have seen photos can we advise.

Mag sulph paste.
Milk bottle.
Stabbing.

The options are wndless...

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MaggieJoyBlunt · 04/07/2015 17:36

I'm not sure that 10 days of magnesium sulphate paste (as per MN recommendation) has achieved anything. Hard to tell though, what with it being behind my own ear.

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MaggieJoyBlunt · 04/07/2015 17:37

Milk bottle!? How? What?

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MaggieJoyBlunt · 04/07/2015 17:38

You are spoiling the experience for the rest of us, OP.

Sorry. I usually run from the Klaxon, being weak of stomach, so I'm not up on the etiquette