Together We Can End The Pain Of This Shameful Disease.

With the help of the media we can finally get the attention we need for funding for research. We the people ask that you help us in the fight so that one day the suffers of this disease can be finally cured.

The earliest clinical sign of Hidradenitis Suppurativa is a painful, inflammatory, abscess like swelling. Within hours to days, the abscess grows in size. It then perforates the overlying skin, yielding purulent or
seropurulent drainage. Sooner or later sinus tracts are formed. Fibrosis increases with each new episode whose resolution as the disease becomes more chronic.

Painful abscesss & scars restrict mobility of the arms and or legs, which then lead into loss of jobs, friends and in some cases family. Patients may fight for years to get state aid. Many are successful, some are not. Majority may suffer from depression.

Although hidradenitis supurativa is most commonly localized to apocrine areas, it has been described in skin areas where apocrine glands are not generally found and indeed have not been identified histologically, as discussed above under "Etiology and Pathogenesis." In order of frequency of
involvement, therefore, the following sites are recognized clinically: axillary, inguinal, perianal,mammary and inframammary, buttock, abdominal, chest, scalp, and eyelid skin.

Laboratory findings of patients are usually limited to the bacteriologic analysis or draining lesions.Staphlococci, streptococci, and Escherichia coli are the organisms most commonly encountered, although chronic cases often show Bacillus proteus or Pseudomonas aeruginosa as well.

There is still much more research to be done in how effective and long-lasting treatments can be developed. Since the cause(s) of this disease are unknown, treatment has been extremely difficult. Antibiotics are widely prescribed to combat infection. Prolonged use of antibiotics can lead to
antibiotic-resistant in majority of patients.

Together we can end the pain of this shameful disease.