Meat as medicine for hidradenitis suppurativa

A patient’s self-directed move to a meat-based diet for IBS symptoms has unintended effects on her recurrent axillary abscesses
Figure 1. June’s left axilla. Similar nodules were present in her right axilla.

June, a 40-year-old public servant, presents as a new patient for a checkup.

Her main concern is that she has been eating an almost carnivore diet for at least a year.