Hubby gets them , or should I say got them. He had always treatead them as boils, with boilo cream and the like. After a particlar bad bout, I researched on the internet - from what I could find that these cysts are a type of infection. So I told him that I think he should put the triple-antibiotic ointment on them. He poo, pooed the idea - but he was desparate and tried it any way. Cleared them right up. He hasn't had one in months, where before he was have one or more at all times.