Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Drain Hella Milia on a Patient's Back
In a new Instagram post, Dr. Pimple Popper drives her scalpel into a set of milia on a patient’s numbed back.
Dr. Sandra Lee, MD digs out a crater of skin and uses her trusty comedone extractor to gush out jelly-like gunk.
Milia, the result of dead skin cells trapped near the skin surface, is most common in newborns, but some conditions and skin irritants can cause it to sprout in adults.
Milia make up some of the smallest concerns for a dermatologist, literally. They are tiny, dome-shaped bumps, nicknamed “baby acne” or “Epstein pearls”, the result of dead skin cells trapped in small pockets at the surface of the skin. The condition most often appears in the developing skin of newborns, but it can show up in adults, as the result of burns, sun damage, poison ivy, steroid creams or an underlining condition.
The teensy anomalies gave Dr. Pimple Popper reason to break out her scalpel, as seen in a new Instagram video. Dr. Sandra Lee, MD—star of TLC's Dr. Pimple Popper—pokes deep at her patient’s bump-freckled skin, bursting open milia pockets and then crushing out the contents with a comedone extractor. In a few instances, she creates a cater-like open and uses the extractor to instigate a miniature geyser of jelly-like gunk. (Meanwhile, Lee and her patient discuss the pains of having to drag someone along for errands. It’s not clear who: child, husband, elderly parent, dog?)
There’s not much leakage, but she really works that speckled skin, which was thankfully numbed in advance.
Watch the video here:
A post shared by Sandra Lee, MD, FAAD, FAACS (@drpimplepopper) on Feb 26, 2020 at 9:19am PST
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