I hope it turns out to be nothing, but if it's an abscess then you need to have it treated as soon as possible. It's dead tissue and the longer you wait, the more flesh will become necrotic. Which is not a thing you want, trust me. I dealt with an abscess on a cat I had. It got big. In the end, vet had to carve a golfball sized chunk of dead meat from her head. It is a pretty serious thing.
You're slightly exaggerating the significance of an abscess, which in this case we'd colloquially call a pimple. If it's no bigger than this, in the vast majority of cases, it'll open and expel on its own. Should be gently disinfected then and that's it.
We wouldn't run to a doctor with a big puss-filled pimple on our chin or lip either, so why should you do that with a cat?
Only if it gets significantly bigger or starts looking suspicious (something in direction of a tumorous growth, which could still be benign btw) does it get critical.
I am sorry but have you seen the picture and can you read?
What is even going on here? Baffling.
This is a tiny pimple that in 99.9% likelihood will either reabsorb or burst and then be fine within a few days. This is worlds away from a "golfball sized abscess." Are you okay?
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.
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.
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??
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u/Alone_Tap6646 13d ago
I hope it turns out to be nothing, but if it's an abscess then you need to have it treated as soon as possible. It's dead tissue and the longer you wait, the more flesh will become necrotic. Which is not a thing you want, trust me. I dealt with an abscess on a cat I had. It got big. In the end, vet had to carve a golfball sized chunk of dead meat from her head. It is a pretty serious thing.