Many people today, over a hundred million adults, suffer from acne on a regular basis. Acne is a common skin condition which while not physically dangerous or life threatening, can do untold damage to self esteem, and self confidence. As with any condition affecting your health and happiness, knowledge is power. Knowing is half the battle. In this article I will be talking about a very common form of acne called pustules.
All acne is created when something called a sebaceous unit is altered into a comedone in your skin. A sebaceous unit is a small little mechanism that produces both a hair, and the oil that is sought to keep your skin moisturized. When everything is running efficiently, there aren’t any problems. In the case of acne, however, you know you’ve got harms.
This happens because the pore, which is shared by both the potential hair that comes out of the hair follicle, and the oil, or sebum, produced by the sebaceous gland, becomes blocked off, or plugged for some reason. They are loads of potential causes of this, and is not the scope of this article. When the aperture becomes clogged, it’s now called a comedone, and how it behaves is what will conclude what the resultant skin situation will be.
A pustule is when the comedone becomes irritated, and contains puss. They look parallel to papules, but since pustules essentially contain puss (hence the name) they are slightly different. The puss is a solution of the pressure that is made up inside the comedone. Another justifying factor is the cause of the irritation. Now and then it may be caused by bacteria, while other times it may be caused by enzymes, which are entirely normal and exist in healthy skin. There can be other causes for the irritation, but the behavior remains the same.
Even though you may able to see a small speck of white on top, leading you to consider you may grasp release by “popping” it, try hard to resist the urge. Even if you do successfully release the pressure by getting rid of the internal puss, because of the inflammation, you run the risk of doing stable mutilation to your skin, in the form of a scar. Scars can result when pustules remain for too long without being taken care of, or being taken care of incorrectly.
You best bet when you have a pimple that doesn’t go away after a few days on its own is to see your dermatologist. He or she will be able to productively relieve the pressure without any risk of unending damage to your skin tissue.
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