The treatment of folliculitis needs to be differentiated according to whether the infection is bacterial folliculitis or fungal folliculitis. Even if it is a bacterial folliculitis, it depends on the distribution of the folliculitis, the severity of the lesions and its depth to choose whether to use only the topical drugs, or that need to be combined with oral medication treatment.

If you have a fungal folliculitis, also known as furfuranosporic folliculitis, it occurs mostly in areas with more oil secretion, such as the chest and back are more common. At this time, a fungal test is done, and if these spores are found and the infection is confirmed to be a fungal infection, it is necessary to use antifungal medication to treat it. For example, topical medications containing benzoic acid or bifonazole cream, terbinafine cream, or naftifine ketoconazole cream, to treat the fungus. If it's bacterial, it's just small scattered inflammatory bumps or other small pustules that can be completely resolved with topical medications. For example, the mentioned Bactrim, fusidic acid cream, erythromycin ointment, or ointment containing chloramphenicol, as well as ciprofloxacin cream are all OK.

If the rash is distributed over a large area, the extension of the inflammation involved in the pain is obvious. This folliculitis is very hard, or that some of the folliculitis it is fused into a large area, this time it is necessary to add oral antibiotics to the treatment, commonly used such as memantine, prednisone, clarithromycin are available. So it is advisable to have your doctor assess the type and extent of your folliculitis, and then target the use of drugs.