Types of Acne : Inflammatory

Move on to next type of acne, the inflammatory.  Inflammatory acne consist of two kind of acne: Papule and Pustule.

Papule on skin

Papule on skin

Papule, occurs when there’s a break on follicular walls, this will result white blood cells rush in and make the pore inflamed. Pustule will appear several days after white blood cells make their way to the surface of the skin. This will result, what people called zit or pimple.

Pustule Image

Pustule on skin (Zit/Pimple)

Sometimes inflamed lesion can become severe when they are exploding or collapsing, they’ll inflaming the area near them. Those lesions caused by this usually called nodules or cyst. Picture below will describe about nodules and cyst.

Nodule on skin

Nodule on skin

Cyst on skin

Cyst on skin

There’s another skin’s anomaly you should know, it’s called Milia. Milia are white tiny bumps you find on your skin, they appears when oughed skin cells get trapped in small pockets on the surface of the skin.

Milia Image

Milia on skin

Source & images: www.acne.org

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