Hard flesh bulges after squeezing pimples

Everyone will go through puberty. During puberty, both boys and girls will get acne. Everyone wants their face to be clean and free of pimples, so we can't help but squeeze these pimples with our hands. No matter what time it is, as long as pimples appear, people will go back to squeeze them. After squeezing pimples, you must be careful of infection. If infected, hard bulges will appear on your face.

How to get rid of acne:

1. Squeeze pimples. Use a pimple squeezer or your fingers to squeeze the pimples on your face.

2. Clean the squeezed material. After squeezing the pimple, rice-like material will appear. Sometimes, if the squeeze is severe, blood may appear. Here we need to wipe off the residue with a relatively clean napkin.

3. Clean the wound. After cleaning the residue, immediately wipe the area behind the acne with clean water.

4. Wipe off the water drops. Use a clean napkin to wipe off the water on the acne.

5. Apply toothpaste on the wound (but not all toothpastes can be applied). Apply a small amount of toothpaste on the acne wound with your hands or a cotton swab.

6. Clean the toothpaste. After a few minutes, slowly wipe off the toothpaste with a napkin, while being careful not to damage the wound.

Causes:

The occurrence of acne is closely related to factors such as excessive sebum secretion, blockage of the sebaceous gland ducts of the hair follicles, bacterial infection and inflammatory response. After entering puberty, the level of androgens, especially testosterone, in the human body increases rapidly, promoting the development of sebaceous glands and producing a large amount of sebum. At the same time, abnormal keratinization of the sebaceous gland ducts of the hair follicles causes blockage of the ducts, hindering the excretion of sebum and forming keratin plugs, also known as micro-acne. Various microorganisms, especially Propionibacterium acnes, multiply in large numbers in the hair follicles. The lipase produced by Propionibacterium acnes breaks down sebum to produce free fatty acids, while also attracting inflammatory cells and mediators, ultimately inducing and aggravating the inflammatory response.

Clinical manifestations:

Skin lesions often occur on the face and upper chest and back. Non-inflammatory lesions of acne appear as open and closed comedones. The typical skin lesions of closed comedones (also known as whiteheads) are skin-colored papules about 1 mm in size with no obvious hair follicle openings. Open comedones (also called blackheads) appear as dome-shaped papules with significantly enlarged follicular openings. Acne will further develop into various inflammatory skin lesions, manifesting as inflammatory papules, pustules, nodules and cysts. Inflammatory papules are red and vary in diameter from 1 to 5 mm; pustules are uniform in size and filled with white pus; nodules are larger than 5 mm in diameter and feel hard and painful to the touch; cysts are located deeper and are filled with a mixture of pus and blood. These lesions may also fuse to form large inflammatory plaques and sinus tracts. After the inflammatory skin lesions subside, pigmentation, persistent erythema, and depressed or hypertrophic scars are often left behind. Clinically, acne is divided into 3 degrees and 4 levels according to the nature and severity of acne lesions: Level 1 (mild): only comedones; Level 2 (moderate): in addition to comedones, there are also some inflammatory papules; Level 3 (moderate): in addition to comedones, there are also more inflammatory papules or pustules; Level 4 (severe): in addition to comedones, inflammatory papules and pustules, there are also nodules, cysts or scars.