Cherry Angiomas – What is this???

I remembered as a kid, that my dad has quite a fair bit of reddish lumps on his body. He had quite a fair bit of it.

But as he grew older, it seemed that these lumps were either gone or that it has flattened and turned black. I couldn’t really remember.

I didn’t remember much of it until last year, that i felt a weird little bump on the right side of my neck. And it was kinda disturbing actually. Cos i have the habit of feeling around my neck and this little bump was quite a distraction to me.

Anyway, over the course of the few months, i felt disturbed about it, but at the same time, i tried to deal with it like how i would deal with a pimple – squeeze it! And well, of course, it didn’t work.

Initially this little bump was skin color, and i think these few days i ‘played’ too hard with it, and it kinda ‘graduated’ to be a reddish slightly bigger bump.

(If i have known, i would left it on its own!)

And it was until 30 mins ago, that i decided that this bump is disturbing enough for me to find out whatever it is, whether if it calls for any concerns to see a doctor or to raise any siren. Whatever it is!

I tried the following:
- Lump on the neck – which brings lotsa weird answers from the Lymnodes and some other stuff. Freaky!!
- Bump on the neck – which shows the same thing.

And i realized that i wasn’t searching in the correct direction. Technically it didn’t appear under the skin. But on the skin.

So once again, i tried bump on the skin, and it yielded some results, which i think it is.


(i’ve inserted the link from where i’ve got it from)

It’s proof enough that this disturbing thing is this thingy called the Cherry Angioma. Man, Cherry sounds kinda sweet and cute, but not such things!

Well….. At least it’s a COMMON thing, so, Phew!!

They are common after age 30, which i am post-30. Hurhur.

And they tend to be genetic. So my dad has/had it….. so i guess i have it. This seem to conclude what this disturbing thing is!

Now, the cause of it is unknown. However, upon further Googling…. i found a website which may well tell of what caused it.

It’s kinda scary to say that it is caused by Bromine poisoning… which is… a form of poisoning. The article talked about a lack of iodine. Hmmm.

But u have to recognize that not everything is credible online. So, before i proceed further to explain what i think about this article, i need to read more to see if there are more articles about the causes of this Cherry Angiomas.

At least one thing i know, it’s a common condition. But yea, i should want to deal with it some day. Just that i should not be over-conscious of it for now. Just let it remain as a dome-shape mini little lump until i decide on how to deal with it.

This bump-on-the-skin disturbed me for a while, and thank God, i kinda self-diagnosed what it is. Sharing it will bring knowledge to people who may be having this thing and wonder what it is. Fyi, this is a common thing, which means that quite a lot of people might have this; it’s just where it occurs.