that darn thing!

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That’s not a boil. It’s a pre-auricular cyst. This resulted from an embyonic anomaly in the way the branchial cleft developed. In her case, it did not produce a birth defect but it still was present, and growing and growing and growing. And since the cyst wall was not excised, it will re-fill and be back. Probably infected, too, since it’s been opened up to the outside (and it’s pretty obvious that the person did not use aseptic technique).

Listen, people, zitpopping is a natural and healthy thing to do, really, but you’ve got to know that not ever poppable lesion in the skin is a wen or comedo that is (reasonably) safe to handle on a DIY basis. Mzitive swellings on the jaw, near the ears or eyes, are rarely suitable for home surgery. If the person who had this done reads this post, I sincerely hope she gets to a physician soon to have this tended to before it turns into the life-threatening intracranial infection that it has the potential to become!

And yes, I’m a PGY2 at an urban medical center and I deal with cutaneous infections regularly. The worst are the ones that people haves messed with, not cleaned out correctly, allowed to turn into mzitive infections, and then they show up and I end up with an examining room that needs to be decontaminated. It would be really instuctive to see followup videos, but scanning the site, I see exactly one (a fellow who aspirated a mzitive cyst but did not excise the infection, leading, unsurprising, to a generalized cellulitis of the face, which CAN kill you.

Late posting regarding “Giant Boil/Cyst on chicks face!” Let us hope this gal is alive. She needed medical care before she messed with that mess.