One woman popped a pimple in the “triangle of death” and ended up in the hospital with facial paralysis. The triangle of death is an area on your face that can fast-track infections to your brain. In ...

Alisha Monaco got a cystic pimple one day and decided to pop it. She didn't know it was going to land her in urgent care. She ...

Lish’s pimple fell inside the “triangle of death,” an area of the face where a popped pimple can release bacteria into the ...

“I went to the doctor — it’s staph,” she said. “I popped a pimple and it turned into a staph infection.” She wrapped up the video with a warning: “Yeah, don’t pop your pimples.” ...

You could get an infection—possibly, a deadly one. As we said, an infected zit is relatively rare (and a lethal one is even rarer), but it’s still a risk to take seriously.

A TikTok user popped a pimple above her lip, waking up to swelling and pain hours later. She was diagnosed with a staph infection, which required treatment. Staph bacteria naturally occurs on some ...

A 27-year-old man will have a scar on his face for the rest of his life, after what he thought was a pimple turned out to be an infected cyst. In late 2024, Kai Davidson noticed a small lump on ...