question: My boyfriend is a roofer, his buttcrack will sweat. He had this reddened area down his whole crack, looked almost like diaper rash, applied a diaper rash cream, zinc oxide. A couple of days later a small pinpoint open area was seen, looked like just from irritation, continued to apply diaper rash cream. Then a few nights after that he was in excruciating pain, he kept saying it felt hard when he touched the area. I looked today & his crack was covered with drainage. After cleaning I inspected it. The skin is raw, peeling, very red. That small open area is now bigger, slightly smaller than a dime though, about half dollar size around the small area is extremely hard, just pushing on it causes blood & pus to drain. Now there s a new area on the other buttocks, equally hard & red & half dollar size as well, smaller open area but draining too. I wouldn t exactly call it an abscess because there s no sack, just extremely firm skin around these tiny sores, but if you push on them pus does come out. No health insurance , please help.