I am aware that there are forms of cysts.
So why is it trauma to an area causes the body to create a “sack” instead of just pus (white blood cells?) in some cases. And if it is a sack, how does it fill up from the inside and then grow and grow to the point it protrudes?
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Your body creates skin cells, but cells die, during their life span they are pushed to the surface where they are eventually discarded. If the surface of your skin endures trauma like a hair follicle or sweat gland getting clogged then there is no where for these skin cells to escape. the result is that they multiple (because your body keeps making cells) in this stuck tunnel forming a sac with a pus of dead skin cells in the middle. Sometimes they go away other times they get infected and burst (Known as an abscess)
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