Acne - Skin Care

Question: Deep inflamed zit (pimple, acne) help?

(Posted by: Legato-persicion on 2008-11-17 23:40:36)

Okay I've been through this before. but it's been a while since I've had a cystic type zit. I was trying to squeeze out a white head and must have aggravated my skin. I now have a deep red zit with a small whit head. It's 3 days old and is still tender - it still feels like it is deep down. I'm afraid it's going to be one of those zits that seem to last forever or i pop it - and there still is pus underneath - and it never seems to clear up. I've been drinking green tea, taking vitamins, and taking aspirin. Also, I've been applying a warm compress. Is there anything else I can do? thanks. dude...i'm 30 dude...i'm 30

Posted by: Allyson K on 2008-11-17, 23:59:12

Ha, ha... puberty. One should not pop zits by hand. Bad. When it get 's gross and unstoppable, when The Blob hutak.com/ articles/ uploaded_images/ The%20Blob-746282.jpg is settling in on your forehead and moving in on that cute girl in your chemistry class (subtly, at first, distracting her from the lecture on isotope reactions, until he evolves and eventually takes her like the Creature from the Black Lagoon imagecache2.allposters.com/ images/ pic/ S2Art/ RSP111~Creature-From-the-Black-Lagoon-Posters.jpg ) and you wash and it doesn 't work and that little volcanic puffy white spot just won 't dry out and die... Take a sewing needle or straight pin, heat the tip with a lighter to sterilize it, and then, with clean hands, after the needle cools, pierce the white part, squeeze out the pus (carefully, keeping the rest of it from tearing), then clean it with a diluted solution of water and some kind of first-aid sterilizer (think hydrogen peroxide or, even better, bactine). Wash it at least once a day, for god sake don 't touch it, not even to cover it up when cute chemistry girl looks over, and it 'll be cleared up by the Spring Fling. Now all you need to worry about is keeping yourself from being enslaved by raging hormones. Tobacco is wacco, rum is dumb, weed is for dweebs. Stay in school. Edit: "dude... I 'm 30 " Well, then I 'm glad you can appreciate my movie references. Kids these days... am I right? (sigh.)

Posted by: niehausmcc on 2008-11-17, 23:46:30

Warn moist compresses to the area will help to bring it to a head but you have to be diligent with that. If you have been poking and squeezing at it often you may need to see your doctor and get antibiotics. If it is quite red around the area, very very tender, you are not feeling well (fever/ chills, nausea or dizziness) you should see your doctor.