Pimples...to pop or not...

We have heard them used or copped the names ourselves...Pizza face, Zit head, Puss bubble, Custard zits and I am sure alot of  people could add a few but...Pimples are an issue to alot of teenagers and even women at that time of the month....

Pimples can cause not only embarrassment for the person who has them but they can also cause social isolation that can cause a whole heap of other issues for the person living with them...

There are a few factors that contribute to the onset of pimples...In teenagers and women they are most commonly caused by a hormonal change...When you get a clogged pore or follicle this will cause pimples... Bacteria gets in  these clogged pores or follicles and multiplys causeing irratation and inflamation which in turn causes an irratated pimple...Sometimes when walls of this pore of follicle burst it causes other problems like acne...

What really prompted me to write this article but was when I was a kid my mum told me to not squeeze my pimples because it would send pus into my brain and give me a brain abscess...I jsut used to laugh it off and think she was joking...Mum has acne scaring badly and she was always worried I too would get it...Well the other day I took Aidan to the doctor as he had got an infection in a squeezed pimple in his back and the doctor was scolding him for squeezing his pimples...He then asked him if he squeezed pimples on his face also...Aidan answered yes to this and then the doctor went in to story mode and showed us some literature about it....

It seems when he was a younger doctor a man he went to uni with squeezed a pimple on his face...By doing this he then got an infection in it which cause a boil type abscess which in turn  then caused a brain abscess and gave him brain damage...It is true...Scary but true...It has happened and anyway when you squeeze them they take longer to heal because all the bacteria is pushed further into the skin....

I think as lexi wrote in her article here...That we need to encourage our kids to take the best care they can of their skin and use the appropriate things needed to do this...So next time you get the urge to pop that pimple on your face think of this you could not only be leaving a scar from squeezing this but you could also cause permanent damage to your brain....

Thanks for taking the time to read this
Have a great day
Cheers
Angie