It s not clear what causes a pilonidal sinus.
Pilonidal sinus hair removal cream.
Initial treatments include sitz.
This study is comparing two hair removal treatments for people with pilonidal disease.
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.
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.
Doctors recommend preventing repeat infections by shaving or regularly using hair removal creams to keep the affected area free of hair.
In an attempt to prevent pilonidal cysts you can remove or thin your hair.
Infected hair follicles usually cause these cysts to develop.
Tissue forms around it and this creates the sinus tract.
A pilonidal cyst is a sac filled with hair and skin debris that forms at the bottom of your tailbone.
Recently laser hair depilation has emerged as another option for hair removal.
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.
Surgery is the most dependable way to remove the pilonidal sinus and pockets of infection.
Laser hair removal along with shaving or hair removal creams and shaving or hair removal creams alone.
To study potential benefits of postoperative epilation after pilonidal sinus surgery the long term effect of hair removal on pilonidal recurrence was investigated.
Are there any alternatives to surgery.
Regular hair removal with a razor was recommended for.
A prevailing theory for pilonidal disease is that a loose hair works its way under your skin.
Causes of pilonidal sinus.