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How to Treat a Boil at Home: Remedies, Safety, and Prevention

| Modified on May 30, 2026
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Watkins Salve
Posted by Heather (Clarksburg, West Virginia) on 02/05/2011
★☆☆☆☆

I have been applying Watkins salve, washing the area and doing the best to treat it but it's not healing at all. It hurts a lot! Sometimes pus will drain, but it's not healing. I am not diabetic. I am not ill otherwise. Well no, I have a kidney infection which I am taking cipro for. But this is starting to worry me. The thought of going to the E. R. over this just makes me feel silly.



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