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A 27-year-old female asked:
Hi onmy pubis area i get lots of lumps that then turn in to puss like a pimple or ingrown hair very painful lots of blood and no hair in there?
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Dr. Scott Tuckeranswered
Plastic Surgery 41 years experience
Could be a problem: You may have a disease call hidradnitis suprativa, that is a chonic infection of skin in the areas of sweat glands. This sometimes can be helped with chronic antibiotics, but sometimes the affected area has to be excised. Check in with a dermatologist to see what they think.
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