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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jopar" data-source="post: 279080" data-attributes="member: 11712">I would take her to her GP, and get it checked out..The lump may be nothing, but there again it may be the start of an abscess and my need antibiotics either cream or tablet version..I know that you said that there was puss which has now gone, but if the 'seed' of infection is still under the skin, it will look like it's healing, but underneath the skin it's may be still festering away...Normal washing with soap and water should be enough, the only problem with using alcohol/surgical spirit is that it dries the skin out, which can actually cause problems....  This is way it was stop for injections many years ago, they found that using it dried and cracked the skin actually putting the risk of infections up over a period of time!Hopefully this is a one off or a rare event..  But if you do start experience it happening more often then perhaps changing over to Teflon cannula's might help out!</blockquote>

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