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Help! i'm getting cystic acne under both ears. it contains pus.
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See a dermatologist: You can't treat yourself with any effective otc medicine. It maybe a pimple, a infected cyst or abscess. Let dermatologist find the best way to treat it, he/she may find out what it is first.
Answered 1/12/2013
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