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I work in an ER. If I had a dollar for every time I have seen a massive infection over things like this, I would be typing on my laptop on the beach right now instead of on my couch. Infections like this can get very serious, and enter into the bloodstream. Once they enter into the bloodstream in can lead to sepsis. Sepsis can lead to death. It is very serious. Quit messing around.
I took a patient to the hospital as a sepsis alert recently who's penis had gotten infected when he did his own "prince Albert"...
Ghastly was not the word for it. He had not bothered to tell anyone about it, and by the time someone found out he was sick, he had already progressed to the hypotensive and AMS stage. to be fair though, he apparently didn't bother to keep it very clean either so...that probably didn't help.
the point is...if it STARTS looking infected, go see a Doctor. dont wait and think it will pass. it wont.