Like digging out nostrils and ears, "squeezing acne" is also a cleaning habit that makes people can't help but "owe their hands". Facing the mirror, two fingers are aimed at the target and squeezed hard, and the moment of "bursting pulp" is extremely decompressing.
In fact, squeezing acne is a dangerous action, in addition to leaving acne scars, it may also cause serious infection.
"Life Times" (search for "LT0385" in WeChat can follow) interviews experts to explain why a pox can squeeze out life dangers, and teach you to deal with acne correctly.
Experts interviewed
Ma Yibing, chief physician of the Department of Dermatology, Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine affiliated to Capital Medical University
Zhao Yukun, attending physician of the Department of Dermatology, East Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
Squeezing acne may precipitate sepsis
Recently, a 13-year-old girl in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, squeezed the "pox" on the right forehead, resulting in orbital infection and bloodstream infection, which induced sepsis, Staphylococcus pneumonia, chest pain, cough, fever, three days and three nights can not lie flat, can only sit.
It is not uncommon to hear that serious consequences such as high fever, swelling and suppuration of the face due to squeezing acne are not uncommon, in addition to not understanding the principle of infection, many people can't even distinguish the types of "acne", so they squeeze it randomly.
Clinically, the "acne" in people's mouths is called acne, and it can be said that the origin of all "acne" is a small pimple. The main manifestations of acne are:
The triggers for the formation of acne are as follows:
Hair follicle angle plug accumulation: under the action of genetic factors, the epithelial horn of the hair follicle mouth is excessively keratinized, blocking the hair follicle opening, resulting in the secretion in the hair follicle not coming out, forming acne.
Sebaceous glands secrete vigorously: too much sebum blocks the opening of the hair follicle, such as oily skin is more prone to acne; and excessive androgen secretion, such as polycystic ovary syndrome, staying up late, often eating high-sugar greasy food, drinking milk will also be the winter solstice.
Sodium propionate infection: The residue in the acnes is the favorite "eating" of Propionibacterium acnes, which multiply and secrete a lot of hyaluronidase, causing inflammation (redness or pustules).
Similar to acne, there is also a type of skin bulge called furunculosis.
3 conditions, acne triggers a serious infection
Many people think that squeezing acne induces infection as a small probability event, so they repeatedly "start" on the edge of danger.
In fact, there are 3 conditions for a severe infection caused by acne:
Wrong way to squeeze
Highly toxic bacteria
The body's immunity is poor
Squeezing itself is a wrong way and a dangerous action, which can cause damage to the capillaries of skin tissue and give bacteria an opportunity.
Normally, venous blood from the face flows downwards into the heart, but without a venous valve, blood can flow upwards into the skull when the blood vessels that flow downwards are not patent or are squeezed locally.
After the face is infected, especially in the facial triangle area, if scratched, squeezed, protruded, hot compresses and accidental injuries at will, it is easy to cause inflammation to spread rapidly, ascend to the brain, causing intracranial cavernous sinus thrombophlebitis, which can be life-threatening when severe.
If you really can't help squeezing the acne, the correct way is to respond according to the classification of the acne, and if there is no inflammatory response to the surrounding skin, you can use a acne needle to make a small opening at the protrusion and pick out the fat particles.
Doing so controls the size and location of the wound and prevents contamination of the surrounding skin.
Acne and folliculitis caused by acne need to wait for the inflammation to subside, and then use a acne needle to remove the oil and pus from it.
7 kinds of skin "small packets" are best not to touch
In addition to the ordinary acne growing on the face can not be squeezed casually, "Life Times" combined with the United States "Women's Health" magazine article, summarized 7 kinds of "small bags" that should not be squeezed.
Endogenous hair
Endophytic hair is the hair that rolls back inside the follicle and appears red lumps, accompanied by itching and inflammation, which can be squeezed to aggravate inflammation and irritation.
Cold sores
Squeezing the cold sores in one place can easily cause the formation of cold sores in another place and cause them to release fluid, which contains the same virus that can also infect other parts.
Miliary rash
It is a tiny, harmless cyst that, if squeezed, can make the skin red and inflamed, while the miliary rash itself is intact.
Peri-hair keratosis
Often referred to as "chicken skin", this hereditary skin disease is caused by the accumulation of keratin.
Keratin is the protein that protects the skin, hair and nails from infections and other harmful factors, and if it accumulates too much, it can cause the opening of the hair follicle to clog. Squeezing can cause redness of the skin and leave scars.
acne
Blackhead acne and whitehead acne are made up of the same substance, i.e. the pores of the skin are clogged with oil, giving it a black or brown color. Squeezing it instead can deepen the bacteria and cause trauma to the skin.
Cystic acne
Such pustules occur deep in the skin, and their accompanying inflammation can hinder the healing process, leading to permanent scarring.
lipoma
A lipoma is a fatty mass under the skin that is a common soft-tissue benign tumor made up of mature fat cells. Lipomas are usually harmless and require surgery to remove them if they are too large. ▲
Editor of this issue: Zhang Yu
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