What determines if the pus in a pimple/cyst is liquid or more solid?
In: Biology
The other answer makes no sense. The real answer is that a cyst and pimple are different things. A pimple is a tiny collection of bacteria and pus due to a blocked gland that becomes infected because all the bacteria are trapped inside. The pus is a mixture of fluid from inflammation and dead white blood cells. This can go from thicker goop to thinner goop but is always somewhat liquid. Most commonly cysts are trapped bits of cells that aren’t necessarily infected. The contents of these cysts are more solid because it’s mostly dead skin cells that instead of being shed off into the world are being shed into the cyst.
There is obviously a lot more to it and a lot of caveats but this is ELI5
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