Yellow skin around spots/scabs, have googled and nothing, any ideas?

[PenelopePitstops]

have recently een getting lots of whiteheads on my chest which i occasionally pick

but now they seem to have a yellow ring around the scabs, and sometimes just the spots. It looks like a bruise but ut isn't. Is this serious? they usually dissapear in a few days.

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bumping again please someone be a wierdy like me!

it's yellow as it's a bruise cause you picked it

don't pick them!!!!!

Squeeze them instead, the yellow is probably just a build up of pus. Doubt very much it is serious.

yellow will be either a build up of pus - i.e. bugs...because you picked them

Or bilirubin - which is what makes bruises go yellow. This is a breakdown product of red blood cells. So if you caused inflammation - or blood recruitment to the area by pickin g- you would get this.

Moral of the story - don;t pick!

SMS what field of maddness, um, i mean science are you in?

biology

I kind of gathered that much just wondered specifically

I do allsorts...I am a molecular biologist (genes and DNA) but have some experience in biochemistry, microbiology, pharmacology....

The only thing I steer clear of is physics...and I try and avoid chemistry when I can

aha, i did a biochemistry degree and then phd in dev biology - now im a sahm, i avoid chemistry at all costs mind.

Who did you do your dev biology with?

I worked in teh developmental biology labs in Bath for a bit. Was lectured by Prof Slack.

if you cat me, i;ll tell you - i was at kent though

I dont do CAT...but I just wondered if it was Slack...as I know he is well recognised....I wsa only in that lab for a short while..

no, ive not heard of him - what was you working on?