# Blisters (not TMI unless you make it that way)

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 5, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blisters-not-tmi-unless-you-make-it-that-way/173268 "2003-05-05T21:06:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![gypsymoth3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@gypsymoth3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gypsymoth3)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blisters-not-tmi-unless-you-make-it-that-way/173268/1 "2003-05-05T21:06:05Z")

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what is the fluid in a blister? is there any way to prevent it fom refilling itself?

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**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blisters-not-tmi-unless-you-make-it-that-way/173268/2 "2003-05-05T21:37:02Z")

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Blister fluid is a ‘homogenous tissue fluid’. We’re mostly liquid and this fluid is already part of you. I have no idea how you would stop it from refilling, you just mop up as it fills.

[This site may help.](http://edcenter.med.cornell.edu/CUMC_PathNotes/Dermpath/Dermpath_06.html)