Doing so usually alleviates the pain but can also cause the infection to spread if not done carefully.Boils become pus filled quickly and the longer they are left, the larger they become until ...

Bumps that appear on the body can be hard for the average person to detect. Is it a pimple? A boil? A mosquito bite? Dr. Amy Espy-Smith, the area medical director for Concentra, an urgent-care clinic ...