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Q: How to Treat and Speed the Recovery of a Bartholin Cyst?
asked by: DoctorQuestion on March 26th, 2006
my daughter was diagnosed with a bartholin cyst that had abcessed and ruptured. Two miss diagnosis from family Dr's. and 7 Dr's saw her in the ER before she was correctly diagnosised. It has been 10 days of major pain killers and antibiotics. She is still suffering she can not sit for more than 45 min and refuses to sit to use the bathroom she says it burns to bad.

I am at a lose as to what to do for her she is miserable and the Dr's are treating this as if it is no big deal. she has not even started her cycles yet and having to go thru this has been dificult to say the least. What can i do for her to speed the recovery and not have her go thru this again. I have not read of one child going thru this, is this rare?


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Dr. Nikola Gjuzelov , MD
replied on April 10th, 2006
Gland Disorders Answer A717
You should bring your daughter to a gynecologist... not to a family doctor or to the ER. Treatment of an abscessed Bartoline’s gland is surgical. Antibiotics and painkillers are secondary treatments to the primary cause. Incision and drainage of the pus is not enough because the condition will be repeated. There is a specific surgical procedure called "marsupialization" wherein an artificial outgoing glandular duct is created for glandular secretions to be efficiently drained.


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