What is The Meaning Of Folliculitis?

The noun folliculitis has one meaning:

inflammation of a hair follicle

Folliculitis, is inflammation of one or more hair follicles. The condition may occur anywhere on the skin.

Folliculitis starts when hair follicles are damaged by friction from clothing, blockage of the follicle, or shaving.

In most cases of folliculitis, the damaged follicles are then infected with the bacteria Staphylococcus (staph).

Barber's itch is a staph infection of the hair follicles in the bearded area of the face, usually the upper lip.

Shaving aggravates the condition.

Tinea barbae is similar to barber's itch, but the infection is caused by a fungus.

Pseudofolliculitis barbae is a disorder occurring primarily in men of African extraction.

If curly beard hairs are cut too short, they may curve back into the skin and cause inflammation.

Willis High School Football Player Was Hospitalized

.....The football player was discharged from Conroe Regional Medical Center Friday, according CRMC spokeswoman Fritz Guthrie...

....However, one Conroe woman told The Courier a staph infection that spread from her grandson, a football player at Oak Ridge High School, to his mother and father sent the father to the hospital in serious condition. Bertha Burson's grandson first had a staph infection last year....

...Staph bacteria can cause boils, impetigo, folliculitis, cellulites and toxic shock syndrome. In 2002, there was such a large outbreak of boils among athletic teams in Texas that the Texas Department of Health....

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