👉 Okay, let’s tackle that rather delightfully peculiar thing affectionately nicknamed, and sometimes rather unfairly, as the "kidney dot." (Seriously, who came up with that name? It sounds like a very grumpy badger. Let's just stick to saying, you know… the little mark.)
Basically, it's what we medically call a fleshy ham lesion—specifically, an pigmented macularadnoma of theρινὶ – which translates rather prettily as, "sun-ruž ցlમ, a tiny, often very low-lying growth on your eyelid. You absolutely won’t notice you have it until someone – usually you during a midlife eczema flare up—points it out. Here's the really weird part: They tend to be much more common in women over 50, and honestly? Nobody quite knows why. There are some very boring, involved hypotheses about sun exposure, aging... stuff that probably only interests scientists with exceptionally pointy elbows. Let's just say it basically pops up out of nowhere. They themselves rarely cause trouble, it is not usually a health threat, but it can be a bit… noticeable. Think about it like this: Imagine you wake up one morning and realise your eyelid has decided to sport a very small, very individual, and frankly rather stylish, freckle. Except that freckle isn’t a freckle. It is the result of a weird little growth on the
