On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:45:56 -0400, Sarah Reece-Stremtan
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:20:16 -0500, Kathy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>I cannot come to terms with a physiologic reason why skin would "grow
over"
>>the nipple pore.  I agree that an "old", recurrent bleb can start to look
>>like that, but I can't believe that is the initial mechanism that gets it
>>all started.
>
>Me too -- anatomically it just does not make sense.  However, I have now 3
>times inadvertantly pulled up suction blisters on the tip of one nipple.
>Sizable things, at least 5-6mm in diameter, with the entire area raised.
>What I can't figure out is how this covers 2 nipple pores, which it visibly
>does <snip>>
>Sarah Reece-Stremtan M.D.
>Washington D.C.
>

A blister on any part of the body covers more than one skin pore.  But I'm
with you, it seems milk duct openings would be big enough to leave a hole
in the skin of the blister.  Unless maybe when the upper skin layer
separates from the underlying layer something in the blister fluid seals
them?

musing,
Claire Bloodgood, IBCLC

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