How to get rid of the Acne?

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Many doctors and health care professionals frown on the practice of squeezing your zits. They are of the opinion that squeezing causes more infections to spread and increased damage to the skin - which is actually true if you squeeze the freshly surfaced acne. In this article, we will take a look at the correct way to squeeze your zits.
If you look at blackheads, you see a solid lump with a pigmented black spot on top of it. By squeezing the lump out, you might be clearing the pore, but you also risk pushing this sebum lump deeper inside, which causes more unnecessary damage that can result in unwanted, more severe scarring.
I believe squeezing zits is a risky business, and should not be attempted without extra care and supervision. However, we have all seen many of times that an untouched pimple worsens and becomes a horrible and painful zit.
I have also personally seen zits that could be safely extracted and the whole infected skin area healed perfectly within days. I would also add that the decision to pop the zits should be accompanied with complete care and knowledge.
Here are some important rules of thumb:

• Wait until the pimple is fully blown and formed on the surface of your skin. Make sure it is showing signs of nearly bursting on its own, and that the skin simply does not have the ability to hold the pus any longer.
• Avoid squeezing a reddish zit as you may probably damage the blood vessels nearby.
• You can extract a blackhead if it shows a visible black cap and the skin around the blackhead is not swollen and reddish.
• Obviously, before you start the operations to extract your zit, make sure you wash your hands. Cleanse your fingertips and under the nails thoroughly before getting started. This is to prevent any further contamination of the already swollen and inflamed pimple.
• Use the right tools. There are metal whitehead and blackhead extractor on sale in your nearest pharmacy.
• Be careful while piercing the acne. Take a sterile, fine needle and pierce the center of the lesion. Next gently squeeze the pimple and give equal amounts of pressure on every side. Continue until a clear liquid comes out.
• Use a clean tissue to dab away the liquid.
• Do not over-squeeze it until you see blood coming out of the zit. There is bad advice telling people that we should squeeze the acne until the blood comes out. They say it means that you have completely removed the pus.
• Make sure you perform the operation with the highest level of care and hygiene. If you follow the guidelines stated above, you should be able to clear up your skin drastically.

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