Boils and nose picking

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A BOIL is an infection of the base of a hair where it's anchored into the skin.The germ that does this is a bacteria called Staphylococcus aureau.The skin around the hair becomes red,swollen,painful,and later spits out pus. Treatment for a boil is a course of antibiotics to kill the germ,pain killers,and warm compresses to the area. Recurrent boils can be due to a quiet deposit of Staphylococcus living in your nose.When transfered,eg on a finger, to skin they make a boil.In these persons. antibiotics are smeared into the nostrils to kill the quiet colonies.To find out if you are harbouring Staphylococcus fugitives in your nostrils a doctor uses a Qtip to stick into your nose and then sends a sample to the lab where a specialist tries to identify if it's growing in your nose. So you wondered why your mother told you not to pick your nose eh? Now you know.