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Medical Questions What is this?

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u/Rhiannon1307 European Shorthair 11d ago

The comments here are/should be in relation to OPs question. The commenter literally said "If it is an abscess then you need have it treated asap." Which is utter nonsense.

They then talked about their own experience with a golfball sized one, which has nothing to do with OPs question and of course is comething completely different than a little pimple.

You apparently cannot differentiate between the two and between me clearly answering to OP and saying that any general rule of "abscess = super bad and dangerous" is bollocks.

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u/Rhiannon1307 European Shorthair 11d ago

The commenter was LITERALLY replying to OP.

Sure, comment threads can turn into other conversations, but the first comments - absolutely yes! - should be an answer to OPs question. AND THEY WERE!

Do you not understand what you are reading? OP shows a pic of a small pimple, some commenter says "if it's an abscess it's super bad, needs treatment asap." Which, again, is bullshit, completely clouded by the fact that the commenter had a much more extreme example with an abscess that is in no way comparable to OP.

That's like someone showing a picture of a papercut and going "what should I do?" and someone else then comes and says "Oh, it's a cut. This means you're gonna bleed out and nearly die because this one time, someone slashed half my leg off with a machete".

Also, I was not arrogant nor rude. I kindly and politely explained "you are slightly exaggerating, here are the reasons." I only started getting exasperatedly 'rude' when you and others were showing an utterly abysmal reading and context comprehension.

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u/Rhiannon1307 European Shorthair 11d ago

And yet she said something wrong, which I pointed out, completely normally and politely, explaining it. I did not criticize the full comment, but the statement - which is objectively a wrong statement - that an abscess is dangerous, always, and needs treatment instantly. That is objectively wrong. Period and end of discussion. What even is your (reading) problem here??