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issue we come up against. And figuring out what to do with a popped pimple is often the second. As it turns out, there are some very important do’s and don’ts to abide by while your skin heals that will help avoid infections, inflammation, andWhy shouldn’t you pop a pimple? Aside from the fact that you’d be interfering with your body’s normal healing process, popping a pimple—or even just prodding around in the area—can cause inflammation and make the area more prone to scarring.
“I try to stress upon my patients that the impact [popping a pimple] has on scarring can last so much longer than acne,” says Nada Elbuluk, M.D., clinical assistant professor of dermatology , Keck School of Medicine of USC.You can end up with scars like divets in the skin or hyperpigmentation, “all things that take much longer to go away than a pimple,” Mary L. Stevenson, M.D., assistant professor in the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology at NYU Langone Health, tells SELF.
But, as Dr. Stevenson says, it’s a “natural habit” to want to pick and prod at that little bundle of pus. Sometimes not popping it just isn’t an option. And sometimes a popped pimple just happens by accident!
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