Pilonidal Sinus Laser Treatment in Hyderabad | Dr Parthasarathy

What is Pilonidal Sinus?
Pilonidal sinus is a very common condition which we encounter in young people. Generally these patients come with complaints of a small boil or swelling in the lower back or in the upper part of the buttocks which ruptures releasing some blood and some pus and dries away but again comes back after three or four months and this process keeps repeating. Initially many people ignore this thinking it’s a small skin boil and once it starts coming repeatedly then their attention is drawn to that.

What causes Pilonidal Sinus?
A Pilonidal Sinus is actually a tunnel which goes from the skin to deep down into the tissue. At the end of the tunnel, usually you find a small tuft of hair. The hair on the back which usually sheds naturally gets sucked into the skin pores of the buttocks and when this hair gets trapped there, it creates a sort of inflammation under itself and starts tunnelling down. Many times because of the dirt and the other debris this becomes infected and the infected material find its way back to the skin and ruptures giving the patient pain and pus discharge.