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[xAnon1135]

I am a 16 year old male and for a while (probably over a 3 years) I have had acne on my body. On my chest I do have chest hair and I have regular acne (common bumps with white heads) and blackheads (just black dots on the skin). My problem is that I have something weird going on. I am a bit overweight, and my skin isn't tight against my chest. In between what you would call man boobs, my chest is pretty oily. You can see my pores pretty easily but... the thing is that if you squeeze pretty much anywhere in that area, pus will come out of the pores and it STINKS. I do not understand the smell. It is almost like a dirty, oily, sweaty rotten smell. Like I said, the area is very oily and my chest is the only place it is like this. It hasn't gotten worse, it stays like this. I can shower and wash the area and my pores will still be big but they won't have pus in them and my chest won't stink, but half way through the next day it will be back. Is it some kind of infection? Like bacterial or yeast? I have no idea what it is. I also have acne on my face (light acne, not a lot) and on my shoulders and right below my neck, and on my arms... well I'll just take a picture and attach it. Idk how to describe it. It's not bumps, but my skin is really pale on my arms and I have a lot of like dots, like little reddish brown dots and they aren't pus filled. I've looked all over the internet and I can't find anything like this. Thanks a lot.

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[Mikezor]

What you have on your arm i have that on my upper leggs alot of it and its red also. no idea why either.

[enjoy]

stuff on arm resembles keratosis pilaris i think?


as for your chest, i get micro blackheads/clogged pores in the same area, wouldn't say it's pus that comes out though, nor does it stink...

I think it's just an area where sebaceous glands are found and they're obviously out of whack on us because the sebum accumulates instead of functionning normally. Have you tried a standard salicylic acid body wash used daily on the area? Mine's not as bad as it used to be but if I stretch out the skin there, you can see all the tiny little bumps and I could squeeze a small amount of shiit out of each of them if I tried but it's not worth the redness or risk of turning one of them into an inflammed spot so I kinda gave up on them.