In an attempt to prevent pilonidal cysts you can remove or thin your hair.
Pilonidal sinus hair removal cream.
It s not clear what causes a pilonidal sinus.
This may either be hair growing around the buttock area or loose hair shed from the buttocks or elsewhere that gathers around the buttock cleft and enters the pilonidal sinus.
Hair removal by shaving or depilatory cream is recommended as an adjunct to standard treatment as hair is thought to play a critical role in pilonidal disease development.
Causes of pilonidal sinus.
It can be a good idea to regularly check yourself for a pilonidal sinus.
This study is comparing two hair removal treatments for people with pilonidal disease.
A pilonidal cyst is a sac filled with hair and skin debris that forms at the bottom of your tailbone.
A skin problem pressure or friction may cause hair between the buttocks to be pushed inwards.
A total of 1 960 patients with pilonidal sinus treated surgically from 1980 to 1996 in three hospitals of the deutsche bundeswehr were eligible for the study.
Are there any alternatives to surgery.
Initial treatments include sitz.
Regular hair removal with a razor was recommended for.
Tissue forms around it and this creates the sinus tract.
Infected hair follicles usually cause these cysts to develop.
Washing your natal cleft every day to prevent hairs building up and removing hair from the area by waxing or using a hair removal cream may help to prevent an infection.
A prevailing theory for pilonidal disease is that a loose hair works its way under your skin.
Doctors recommend preventing repeat infections by shaving or regularly using hair removal creams to keep the affected area free of hair.
To study potential benefits of postoperative epilation after pilonidal sinus surgery the long term effect of hair removal on pilonidal recurrence was investigated.