Milia,Symptoms and causes
What are milia? You can think of milia as like a little tiny cyst. It almost has a cyst wall to it and this is different from a whitehead or some other lesions that we may get on the face and the milia are actually proteins filled with keratin. Keratin is the cell on the outer layer of our skin that makes up our hair and that's why it looks white in appearance and these are usually non-inflammatory. When people hear that It's a cyst they're thinking like a big ball under their skin but milia tend to be really small and we have seen it two different ways. We have seen clusters of it and then we have also seen just like one-off little bumps, they kind of look like whiteheads. Milia also form on the eyelid and near eyes. To know how you can recover from milia on eyelids click here. Difference between milia and whiteheads The most accurate way to get the diagnosis is getting it looked under a microscope so that way the physician or dermatologists know what the substance act