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A boil is a red, swollen, painful bump under the skin. It often looks like an overgrown pimple. Boils are often caused by infected hair follicles. Bacteria from the infection form an abscess, or pocket of pus. A boil can become large and cause severe pain.Boils most often happen where there is hair and rubbing. The face, neck, armpits, breasts, groin, and buttocks are common sites.acteria from the infection form an abscess, or pocket of pus. A boil can become large and cause severe pain. Boils most often happen where there is hair and rubbing. The face, neck, armpits, breasts, groin, and buttocks are common sites.
A boil is simply a small pocket of infection beneath the skin. Sometimes they are referred to as skin abscesses. A little bacteria gets under the skin when you have a small cut, scratch, nick, insect bite, ingrown hair or other opening and forms a bump that starts out looking much like a pimple. As the infection grows, however, the boil gets bigger and bigger, sometimes as large as a golf ball or even a baseball. It fills with pus, which is a mixture of old white blood cells, bacteria and other debris. Itâs painful. While boils are not rare, most people do not get them often.