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Alisha after popping the spot(Image: Jam Press)<\/p>\nAlisha Monaco, 32, had no idea it was dangerous to pop a spot in that area of her face.Alisha after popping the spot(Image: Jam Press)<\/p>\n
A woman ended up in hospital after squeezing a spot in the little-known \u2018triangle of death<\/a>\u2019 area – leaving her in \u201cexcruciating\u201d pain.<\/p>\n Alisha Monaco had no idea it was dangerous to pop a spot in the area <\/a>on her face – between the corners of the mouth and the bridge of the nose. Due to its connection to the cavernous sinus, a region in the brain, picking or squeezing pimples can lead to serious infections.<\/p>\n Alisha, 32, shared her experience on TikTok <\/a>and said the spot appeared to be an \u201caverage\u201d pimple, which she is prone to getting several times a month. After failing to pop it, she poked it with a sanitised pimple popper needle tool and her ear popped at the same time, leading her to become dizzy immediately.<\/p>\n She said: \u201cI knew I\u2019d messed up. The pain was all on the right bottom side of my nostril, down to my lip and even up the side of my face. I woke up four or five hours later in excruciating <\/a>pain on my right side of my face.<\/p>\n “The whole right side of my face was swollen<\/a>, my smile was crooked and my ear felt clogged on the right side. It was brutal. I was in so much pain just trying to smile\/talk.\u201d<\/p>\n The mum-of-three called her husband to come home to be with the children in the morning while she went to hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alisha said: \u201cThe urgent care staff was extremely kind to me and make a point to not let me feel embarrassed about being at the urgent care for popping a pimple<\/a>. They were happy I came in because the swelling was so bad. I needed to get it treated immediately because the risk of infection in that location is dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n The Mirror <\/a>reports that she was given four prescription medications to keep her symptoms at bay \u2013 as well as the chance of infection spreading \u2013 and was discharged.<\/p>\n Since her return home, she has been recovering well, but took to TikTok to share the dangers, having previously heard about the \u2018triangle <\/a>of death\u2019 zone there.<\/p>\n She said: \u201cI had a feeling after I popped the pimple that I needed to look it back up on TikTok <\/a>to double check and sure enough my pimple was right in the triangle of death area.<\/p>\n \u201cI [then] just wanted to warn others to learn from my experience. I don’t have a huge following on social media so I had no idea that it was going to go so viral, but from reading the comments of all the people who weren’t aware that the triangle <\/a>of death was a thing, I\u2019m glad I did.<\/p>\n \u201cNow everyone can see what happened to me and hopefully they will just put a pimple patch<\/a> on and leave that area alone!\u201d<\/p>\n Dermatologist Alok Vij said: “Think of this small segment of your face as a direct line to your brain. That\u2019s thanks to your cavernous sinus, a network of large veins <\/a>located behind your eye sockets. Through this sinus, blood drains from your brain.<\/p>\n “An infection in the danger triangle \u2014 like from a picked pimple<\/a>, or a nose piercing gone wrong \u2014 has a small but not impossible chance of traveling from your face right to your brain, without much distance to cover between them. There is the possibility for a facial infection to become an infection that impacts the rest of your body.”<\/p>\n![\"Alisha's](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755394879_35_0_CapturePNG.png\")
Alisha’s face after she went to hospital(Image: Jam Press)<\/p>\n![\"Alisha](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755394880_477_0_CapturePNG.png\")
Alisha instantly felt pain and dizziness(Image: Jam Press)<\/p>\n