Garlic needs about 1in (2.5cm) of water a week to thrive in cool or warm temperatures. During summer months with very little rainfall, check your garlic plant's soil several times a week for dryness. Stick your finger in the soilif it is dry instead of moist, water it until the soil is damp but not waterlogged. Garlic needs plenty of nitrogen to produce a strong harvest. From the time the garlic shoots emerge to harvest, give your plants a fish emulsion fertilizer every other week or if your plant develops yellow leaves (a sign of nitrogen deficiency). You can buy fish emulsion fertilizer at many garden centers or nurseries. If you can't find a fish emulsion fertilizer, another nitrogen-rich fertilizer will work as an alternative. The garlic scape is a large, curled blossom on the top of garlic plants. Remove the scape when it grows to redirect your plant's energy towards growing large, healthy bulbs. Cook with the scape to keep it from going to waste. You can find scape recipes online, from using scape in stir-fry to making a scape salad. The scape can be used as an alternative to chives or green onions. Excessive weeds can reduce your plant's yield by over half. To prevent weeds from taking your garlic's nutrients, pull weeds regularly before they get out of hand.
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One-sentence summary -- Water your garlic plants about once a week. Spray a liquid fertilizer on your plant twice a month. Cut back your plants' "scape" for fuller bulbs. Weed the area around your garlic at least once a week.

Getting a cyst drained requires local or general anesthesia, depending on the severity of the cyst. Before draining your cyst, your doctor will administer a local or general anesthesia to prevent you from feeling any pain from the procedure. For a small skin cyst, only a local anesthesia may be necessary, and these procedures can often be performed in the doctor's office. If the cyst is deep or large, then general anesthesia may be necessary. This may require a hospital visit, but is usually a day surgery. After the area has been anesthetized, your doctor will make an incision in the cyst using a sterile surgical knife. The incision will allow your doctor to drain the contents of the cyst and remove the cyst wall if necessary. Removing the cyst wall may help prevent the cyst from returning. In some cases, it may be necessary to place a drainage tube in order to allow a cyst to continue to drain for a few days. Your doctor will secure the tube using stitches and the opening will be less than a inch (6 mm) in diameter. This process is called "marsupialization." After the cyst has been fully drained and the cyst wall has been removed, your doctor will suture the area where the incision was made. You may need to wear a bandage over this area as well. Make sure that you follow your doctor's instructions for caring for the surgical wound. Call your doctor if you notice any signs of infection including: Redness, particularly red streaks emanating from the wound site Warmth Swelling Pus Intense throbbing at the wound site Fever of 100.4 F (38C) or more Your doctor may prescribe an antibiotic as part of the follow-up treatment for an infected cyst or if your cyst was related to a sexually transmitted infection. If your doctor prescribes an antibiotic, then it is important to use it exactly as directed. Make sure that you take the full prescription or you may be at a higher risk of infection, re-infection, or complications later on.
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One-sentence summary -- Anesthetize the area. Make the incision. Place a drainage tube if necessary. Suture the area if necessary. Take antibiotics as instructed.

Alleviate pain with OTC pain medicine from your local pharmacy or drug store, such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB) or acetaminophen (Tylenol). Ask your doctor or pharmacist which is the best medicine for you if you have any medical issues, especially if you have liver or kidney problems. Take the medicine as indicated on the bottle or by your doctor. Apply hydrocortisone cream or other corticosteroid cream to the red, swollen area. This can decrease the pain and inflammation in the area. Use it as directed on the label. Reapply it after four hours if you need to. Calamine lotion can help bee stings as much as it helps poison ivy rashes. Dab some onto your sting with a cotton ball. Use it as indicated on the label. Calamine lotion with analgesic (e.g. Caladryl), may be especially effective. Reapply it after four hours if you need to. Take oral antihistamines like diphenhydramine (Benadryl) or chlorphenamine (Chlor-Trimeton). Use it as directed on the label or by your doctor or pharmacist. This can help relieve itching. Antihistamine pills might make you very drowsy. Be sure you know how they affect you before taking them when driving or going to work.
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Take over-the-counter pain medicine. Apply hydrocortisone cream. Dab on calamine lotion. Take antihistamine pills if your sting is itchy.