Oh, joy.
So, one of the people I live with got a boil on their chest. They harped and whined and griped about it and got pissed when everyone made fun of them for their overreaction. They are the type of people to look up a webmd article, and suddenly have all of the afflictions mentioned, and for this fun endeavor, they did so twice as much. To be quite honest, I thought they were playing with it way too much, and were more likely irritating it/making it worse, but being that I don't look up symptoms/treatments online, what would I know? Now, if they had sedated their paranoia by reading all of the numerous sites/blogs on the subject they had claimed to have read, they would know that it is /highly/ advisable to wash everything and anything the infected area comes into contact with, and if you live with a lot of people, you should really make sure to be vigilant enough of your highly contagious skin bacteria to not spread it around.
This person either used other people's towels, did not tell them, and left them in the bathroom, or in my case, they used my electric razor to shave their chest, as I work most of the day, do not share a room with them, and hardly see them, let alone get close enough to spread contagious pus. Why do I say this? Because in the past few days, what started as pain associated with ingrown hairs in/around my armpit have become swollen and painful to the point that I cannot lift heavy objects or reach at work without being in immense pain. I've been placing ointments on it, and bandaging it up regularly, but Monday night/Tuesday morning, it started to ooze a little, and tonight, it oozed a lot. Since getting home from work, I've had to clean the area and change out bandages numerous times, I've also had to change my shirt three times because the stuff leaks through what I have on it and bloody pus saturates the shirt.
Another person I live with has reported boils too, near their crotch/inner thigh, and I've been telling everybody else to not use any of the towels in the bathrooms, even if it was theirs and they just cleaned it.
What's worse is that the person that started this mess borrowed one of the people I do share a room with's shirt to work out, then sprayed it with cologne and told him he would be able to wear it. Ugh.
This person either used other people's towels, did not tell them, and left them in the bathroom, or in my case, they used my electric razor to shave their chest, as I work most of the day, do not share a room with them, and hardly see them, let alone get close enough to spread contagious pus. Why do I say this? Because in the past few days, what started as pain associated with ingrown hairs in/around my armpit have become swollen and painful to the point that I cannot lift heavy objects or reach at work without being in immense pain. I've been placing ointments on it, and bandaging it up regularly, but Monday night/Tuesday morning, it started to ooze a little, and tonight, it oozed a lot. Since getting home from work, I've had to clean the area and change out bandages numerous times, I've also had to change my shirt three times because the stuff leaks through what I have on it and bloody pus saturates the shirt.
Another person I live with has reported boils too, near their crotch/inner thigh, and I've been telling everybody else to not use any of the towels in the bathrooms, even if it was theirs and they just cleaned it.
What's worse is that the person that started this mess borrowed one of the people I do share a room with's shirt to work out, then sprayed it with cologne and told him he would be able to wear it. Ugh.