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Lump under the skin

The education of a seal under the skin, often referred to as a bump under the skin. Despite the dubious medical terminology, this is a fairly accurate description of the tumor.

Cones are presented in the form of dense formations, sometimes even almost firm to the touch, different size. In addition, such education differ quite chaotic location on the body. A lump may appear anywhere, and to predict its localization impossible.

How long will this lump be under the skin, strictly depends on the reasons for its formation and treatment, which will be assigned. Plus, you can remind of the fact that the treatment should be conducted strictly on the proposed tactics and without interruption at the patient's request.

As a rule, the lump has no symptoms, i.e. the patient does not have any subjective sensations. However, there is a complicated course of its development, when the seal starts to sharply and quickly increase in size or together with this appear, and subjective sensations such as itching, pain, apparent redness and inflammation. In these cases you should not postpone the treatment to the doctor.

Causes of bumps

The reasons for the appearance of tumors in the bumps quite a lot. We can immediately note that most of them somehow are related to skin diseases.

The most common cause of bumps stands

Abscess of the skin. Suppuration, which passes into abscess, also like a lump. However, this lump it is always not just dense but also extremely painful. The skin over the surface of the bumps is always hot, and the education is a considerable quantity of pus. In case of serious and complicated abscess is a lump under the skin can be combined with the General increase in body temperature.

Hemangioma is another lump under the skin, which presents a painless education under the layer of the epidermis. Lump in this case can be as dense consistency and quite soft.

To a certain type of bumps can be attributed

Rheumatoid nodules. If this is the case, then the bump is marked not just a seal on the skin, which generally does not manifest itself, but also deformity of the joints.