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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
The mainstay of therapy for a pilonidal cyst is antimicrobial therapy. | |||
===Medical therapy=== | |||
Treatment for a pilonidal cyst usually begins when the patient goes to the doctor because of pain. It is treated as an infection, and a doctor might prescribe [[antibiotic]]s as well as hot compresses and the application of depilatory creams to the lower back and gluteal cleft. | Treatment for a pilonidal cyst usually begins when the patient goes to the doctor because of pain. It is treated as an infection, and a doctor might prescribe [[antibiotic]]s as well as hot compresses and the application of depilatory creams to the lower back and gluteal cleft. | ||
* Pilonidal cyst<ref name="pmid24947530">{{cite journal| author=Stevens DL, Bisno AL, Chambers HF, Dellinger EP, Goldstein EJ, Gorbach SL et al.| title=Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the infectious diseases society of America. | journal=Clin Infect Dis | year= 2014 | volume= 59 | issue= 2 | pages= 147-59 | pmid=24947530 | doi=10.1093/cid/ciu296 | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=24947530 }} </ref> | * Pilonidal cyst<ref name="pmid24947530">{{cite journal| author=Stevens DL, Bisno AL, Chambers HF, Dellinger EP, Goldstein EJ, Gorbach SL et al.| title=Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the infectious diseases society of America. | journal=Clin Infect Dis | year= 2014 | volume= 59 | issue= 2 | pages= 147-59 | pmid=24947530 | doi=10.1093/cid/ciu296 | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=24947530 }} </ref> | ||
:* Preferred regimen: After the pathogens isolated, a 5-10 day course of antibiotic is prescribed. | :* Preferred regimen: After the pathogens are isolated, a 5-10 day course of antibiotic is prescribed. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Overview
The mainstay of therapy for a pilonidal cyst is antimicrobial therapy.
Medical therapy
Treatment for a pilonidal cyst usually begins when the patient goes to the doctor because of pain. It is treated as an infection, and a doctor might prescribe antibiotics as well as hot compresses and the application of depilatory creams to the lower back and gluteal cleft.
- Pilonidal cyst[1]
- Preferred regimen: After the pathogens are isolated, a 5-10 day course of antibiotic is prescribed.
References
- ↑ Stevens DL, Bisno AL, Chambers HF, Dellinger EP, Goldstein EJ, Gorbach SL; et al. (2014). "Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the infectious diseases society of America". Clin Infect Dis. 59 (2): 147–59. doi:10.1093/cid/ciu296. PMID 24947530.