How can there be spots under the skin that can't be seen?!
Question: How can there be spots under the skin that can't be seen!?
I have a spot under the skin!. It can't be seen above the skin so I can't squeeze it so I'm not sure how to get rid of it!. I can feel a lump though and it hurts!. I put some tea tree oil on the skin, but I'm not sure if it will sink in deep enough to get rid of the spot!. How can I get a spot under the skin if no bacteria from above can get through the skin!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
The skin doesn't keep bacteria out!.
Viewed at a microscopic scale, the skin would look like tree bark or a cobbled road, with pits and gaps where the sweat bubbles up, and where hairs emerge!.
It's normally inhabited by all sorts of bugs and microbes!. Most of them are harmless, and some of them help to keep the surface healthy!. There's a kind of oily sealant ('sebum') smeared all over it, and this will keep a lot of 'outsiders' from getting in!. But it can also be a good breeding environment for some harmful organisms!.
Your immune system is constantly kept busy fighting off bugs that find their way inside your skin, either through tiny cracks and scratches, down some of the sweat pores & hair follicles (where most spots start to develop), or by infesting the gaps between skin cells or even the inside of dead or damaged skin cells!.
You can quite often FEEL a spot before you see any of the evidence, because the process that leads to a spot(producing the 'pus' that forms it) is painful!. A fully developed spot is often painless until you squeeze it and damage some of the surrounding tissues!. Squeezing a spot can also let new bacteria get into the skin, causing further infection!.
Antiseptics (including the alcohol in perfume) can soak into the oily layer, and the dead-skin layer, of the skin!. In this way, it can reach bacteria that are hiding there, and poison them!.
(If you overdo this strategy, the stuff will start to poison living skin cells, irritating and damaging your skin!.)Www@Answer-Health@Com
Viewed at a microscopic scale, the skin would look like tree bark or a cobbled road, with pits and gaps where the sweat bubbles up, and where hairs emerge!.
It's normally inhabited by all sorts of bugs and microbes!. Most of them are harmless, and some of them help to keep the surface healthy!. There's a kind of oily sealant ('sebum') smeared all over it, and this will keep a lot of 'outsiders' from getting in!. But it can also be a good breeding environment for some harmful organisms!.
Your immune system is constantly kept busy fighting off bugs that find their way inside your skin, either through tiny cracks and scratches, down some of the sweat pores & hair follicles (where most spots start to develop), or by infesting the gaps between skin cells or even the inside of dead or damaged skin cells!.
You can quite often FEEL a spot before you see any of the evidence, because the process that leads to a spot(producing the 'pus' that forms it) is painful!. A fully developed spot is often painless until you squeeze it and damage some of the surrounding tissues!. Squeezing a spot can also let new bacteria get into the skin, causing further infection!.
Antiseptics (including the alcohol in perfume) can soak into the oily layer, and the dead-skin layer, of the skin!. In this way, it can reach bacteria that are hiding there, and poison them!.
(If you overdo this strategy, the stuff will start to poison living skin cells, irritating and damaging your skin!.)Www@Answer-Health@Com
i get the same problem very very painful and large sometimes, they also will not go with out the use of antibiotics so maybe you need to go and see ur gp, maybe ur body is lacking something so they may do a blood test just to make sure which is what they done for me because this was a problem that would not go and when they did they came back after a few weeks!. ur not alone!Www@Answer-Health@Com
I think i have something similar!.!.!.!. I have just left it though and it has gone down!.Www@Answer-Health@Com