5. Itchy, burning skin
Usually, the itchy and burning sensation that can be felt across the skin at an affected area is one of the earliest signs that a break out of folliculitis is on the way. You can look at it in two ways.
Either this is the first frost of winter, before the really harsh weather sets in, or it’s the first flowers of spring before everything starts to bloom and flourish. Neither analogy is particularly favorable, but at least it might take your mind off the incessant itchiness coming from the soon to be blistered up region of your body.
The nature of folliculitis is that it likes to develop in some of our most intimate areas, and so it means that having a good old scratch in public is going to result in more than a few sideways glances and shakes of the head. The old mantra about never scratching your chickenpox works here too, even though scratching an itch can sometimes feel so good.