What the heck is this

It started out so small like a little pimple and I left it alone, putting aquaphor on it, now it’s so big and it looks painful. It doesn’t even seem to bother him, he doesn’t notice it. Does anyone know what this is or what I can do to make it go away ?

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I had something like this on my hand. I put vaseline and a Band-Aid. Let it get nice and soft then I squeezed a hard white thing came out of it. Now it’s slowly getting better. My bf thinks it was a spider bite

@Lissa I just don’t wanna squeeze it on him because of risk of infection. If it was on me I would have squeezed it already but I’m super weary about it on his baby skin

I would just keep the aquaphor and a bandage. Watch it and maybe take him to the doctor. If it is a spider bite like I thought mine was they would know

I’d have a doctor check it out - make sure nothing more severe is happening under the skin

I would bring him to the pediatrician to get it taken care of. It looks very irritated and swollen. Mine had a mosquito bite and it got crazy big in less than a day and we had to get antibiotics, it was infected.

I would definitely bring him to the dr. & good idea about not popping it. I had something like this when I was little, popped it & got MRSA 😬

@Angel yeah I don’t wanna cause an infection by doing so 😢 even as adults were told not to pop stuff on our bodies (even though we do)

I’d use a mild soap and then run a clean saline solution on it (or just wet it and pack on a light dab of salt). The salt basically absorbs the liquid / pus and also helps it remain sanitary. If this doesn’t work I’d use some iodine on it to kill off germs and take it off with mild soap.

@Alicia this reply helps so much. Thank you, I will do this in the meantime until he goes to the doctor.

@Macie my mom’s a pediatrician so I got some tricks from her! Glad this helps