If I have a zit on, say, my nose, the entire nose is inflamed and tender. If I pop the zit, soon the only thing that hurts is the tiny spot where the popping occurred. How does the simple presence of pus in the zit cause such pain?
If I have a zit on, say, my nose, the entire nose is inflamed and tender. If I pop the zit, soon the only thing that hurts is the tiny spot where the popping occurred. How does the simple presence of pus in the zit cause such pain?
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Inflammation/pressure of the surrounding tissue. When you pop the zit that pressure is relieved, and the inflammation resides.
Your skin is made up of more cells than you’ll ever know. They’re like bricks that build a HUUUUUUUUGE building. So, when something’s wedged in between them, your skin says to your brain “hey, I don’t like that. It’s messing up our mojo”, and you feel pain. Pain is the body’s way of telling the brain something is wrong, and the body wants it to stop or go away.
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It’s the pressure from the swelling. When you remove the pus there’s much less pressure.
Acne is an infection in your pores caused by bacteria that are common on the skin.
The swelling from your immune response is what’s painful. It creates pressure and affects the nerves.
The skin in certain places like your nose is thinner and tighter, so the inflammation hurts more because there’s less space for it to expand into.
Where-as you might not even feel acne in places where the skin is thicker like on your back.
When you pop it, you’re tearing the skin.
Tearing is more damaging than inflammation, so your brain sends a sharper pain to let you know.
it creates swelling. swelling irritates nerves by putting lressure on them and causes a pain response.
Pus takes up space, and the corresponding immune system response causes inflammation, both causing a lot of pressure on the surrounding cells. The way your skin feels pressure from the outside world is through nerve cells in the skin that react to that pressure, high pressure on those cells registers as pain.