Don't Squeeze Your Pimples - Must Know Information For Those With Acne!

The Terrible Squeeze!

Squeezing zits causes more damage that you think. A common belief that once you squeeze out a pimple it is gone forever is misinformed. Doing this will cause long lasting damage to your skin.

There are a few things that you should know first. There are different types of skin inflammations. White heads, scientifically referred to as come domes are non-inflammatory plugged follicles below the surface of the skin. Black heads are enlarged pugs that look like black spots and have broken through the dermal layer of the skin. Then there are pimples.

Zits, the common reference to pimples are inflammatory! This means that there has been an infestation of bacteria to the area causing your immune system to take defensive measures by sending out a cavalry of white blood cells to the area, hence the milky white pus formation. Also your skin will turn pink around that area, and because of the excesses of both bacteria and white blood cells, the area starts to ache and is painful to the touch.

Inflamed follicles are further classified into papules, which are pink in colour and rather painful, pustules which are small round lesions with a reddish base and a yellow centre, nodules/cysts are the most severe are large and extremely painful and without proper care will often lead to acne scarring

Fight the Temptation

It is temping to squeeze out all these skin manifestations. The thought process being that if you can push them out, they will not return and you are relived. WRONG. Squeezing comeodomes is not only painful it can lead to injury of the sebaceous follicle and the tissue around it and force the contents, bacteria; deeper engrained in the skin surface while some ours onto the surface.

In short because most acne suffers do not know the difference between the inflammatory type and non-inflammatory type of pimples can cause so much more harm than good.

What to do when I feel a pimple develop?

Whenever you do feel a pimple developing, place a chunk of ice over the area for about five minutes, this deprives the bacteria of blood because all vessels will be completely constricted by this low temperature. Also, the bacteria themselves will be damaged by the cold, and will be unable to reproduce, thus cause inflammation.

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