So the ER drops knowledge. Thanks for chiming in.
In regards of an abscess just clean up well. You can also take blood thinners which basically makes it harder for your body to create an inflammation. It makes it a lot harder to narrow the infection down and clot up. There are natural ones like turmeric.
I've had some staph problems but thinning my blood out at the first sight of it makes it go away. I remember my friend got a really bad abscess from pinning his quad. It was almost the size of a football. He went to the hospital and he had to carry this tube hooked up to a mini vacuum. Every couple minutes it would "turn on" and suck a little out and drop it into the vacuum. It was pretty disgusting. Like we would just be sitting there, you then hear are rumble in that box he was carrying, and some crud would drop out of the tube. Off topic a little but thought I would share