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Hello, Recently My Mother Noticed This Tiny Hole On My

Hello, recently my mother noticed this tiny hole on my back, its as if someone had poked my back with a pencil or a needle and made the the tiny hole there. it doesn't hurt at all and i didn't even know i had it. There's no bump on it. My skin looks normal around the tiny hole. But when mom squeezed the the skin around the hole some type of white stuff came out of the tiny hole. I tried seeing if it smelled but it does not. And now a week later mom checked again and the hole seem to have turn red and closed i think? It bleeded a tiny bit when the white stuff stopped coming out. Today she checked my back again and she noticed a bother tiny tiny hole on this other part of my back, and she squeezed it and white stuff came out as well. What is this? I looked up online and only something called "sebaceous cyst" kept coming out. I looked it up on images and it shows people with bumps, but I don't have bumps. Its just tiny tiny holes. And only on my back.
Mon, 13 May 2013
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hi there, indeed what you have described does suggests of a sebaceous cyts but as you have no lump, it is more likely to be a furuncle or a white head which is quite common in those areas of the body. I would suggest athat you do not squeeze it as it is getting infected and that is the reason that it has turned read and its opening is blocked by scabbing. If at all that is troublesome to you then visit a dermatologist and let him take a look and do the need ful. In the meanwhile. keep the area clean and apply some antiseptic lotion to prevent further infection. Take care.
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Hello, Recently My Mother Noticed This Tiny Hole On My

hi there, indeed what you have described does suggests of a sebaceous cyts but as you have no lump, it is more likely to be a furuncle or a white head which is quite common in those areas of the body. I would suggest athat you do not squeeze it as it is getting infected and that is the reason that it has turned read and its opening is blocked by scabbing. If at all that is troublesome to you then visit a dermatologist and let him take a look and do the need ful. In the meanwhile. keep the area clean and apply some antiseptic lotion to prevent further infection. Take care.