a pilonidal cyst and the sleepless nights

Nothimg hurts a guy more than when one of your little ones is hurting and you cant do squat about it. My 4 yr old has a pilonidal cyst on her tailbone, can't sit, cant walk right, cant sleep. Im on night 2 and a 1/2 with no sleep now

So sorry to hear this man. Hope the little one is doing better soon! What is the treatment? Surgery?

Antibiotics, childrens advil and multiple hot baths per day till the infection goes away. Then if there are multiple reoccurances surgery becomes an option.

Just get it whacked now and be done with it. Find a pediatric general surgeon.

Sucks, man. Babysitter for sleep, or will the stress still keep you from it?

Got about 2 hours.last night. And according to the dr yesterday since this is a first occurance and its infected they wont cut it out and I dont want to put her through that unless its absolutely necessary

What kind of doctor are you taking her to?

The one yesterday was a pediatric gp with the local pediatric urgent care

Find a pediatric general surgeon. That's my last word on this. It your kid.

Got a call in and waiting to hear back from a peds general surgeon. My mother asked the same question as dr hess and Im getting a consultation for her

As an adult a pilonidal cyst hurts like hell, so I could only imagine on a child. Luckily mine ruptured and I didn't have to have surgery.

I hope she gets well soon.

Well the cyst ruptured this morning, which opens up a while new world of infections, but at least she got a little relief from that.

"Rupture" is not usually a word you look forward to.

Best of luck and medical science to you guys.

ryanty22 wrote: Well the cyst ruptured this morning, which opens up a while new world of infections, but at least she got a little relief from that.

If it was like mine when I was a teenager, the hole has to been cleaned out (usually there is hair in there) then it is packed with antibiotic gauze strips that help keep it from being infected until it starts to heal.

I hope you guys get it figured out.

In this case, rupture is probably the best case scenario and most immediate relief for her

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: If it was like mine when I was a teenager, the hole has to been cleaned out (usually there is hair in there) then it is packed with antibiotic gauze strips that help keep it from being infected until it starts to heal. I hope you guys get it figured out.

This right here is the worst part of the surgery route. I've had a couple of these things cut out of me the last couple years (one on my spine and another on my lower abdomen) and both times they cut out the cyst, then stuffed the hole with gauze. The worst part was that I had to change the gauze myself a couple times - digging inside yourself and stuffing gauze into a hole is not at all pleasant. They both healed really well though. So, the surgery and gauze part sucks, but it's almost certainly the safest long-term solution in terms of avoiding infections.

And coincidently, I had another one develop recently... also on my tailbone. Very unpleasant.