Question: Why do we get spots?

Karen Reed answered on 19 Jun 2012:

Hiya Meg,
There’s actually differnt types of spots – sometimes a viral rash gives us spots – like chicken pox – and those are the way the virus uses to spread and inect other people. Sometimes we get spots due to allergic reacions – that’s when the skin is fighting off something that’s touched it that it doesnt like. But blackheads and those kind of spots occur when a poor gets blocked up with gunk – or to be more precise an oily substance that is produced by the skin to protect it often mixed with bits of dead skin.
hope that helps