Clinical presentation of lactational breast abscess usually includes fever, chills, malaise, and recent or recurrent mastitis. Pain, erythema, and firmness over an area of the breast are typically ...

In some cases, though, these infections lead to complications that cause irritation on one side of the throat. Most abscesses develop from bacteria and pus that remain after an infection in the ...

These include scarlet fever, glandular fever, an abscess behind the tonsil known as quinsy and some cancers. The test is only used for adults and children aged over five, with pregnant women aged ...

The pustule may also drain naturally, eventually shrinking and drying up. Smaller abscesses near the surface of the skin may also do the same, but larger ones or those inside the body usually need to ...