How To Choose An Acne Treatment?
June 22, 2009 by marilynnsyrett
Filed under acne
Hi, Water water everywhere… But not a drop to drink! Do you get the same feeling as you browse through the acne skin care section of your drugstore? There are so many acne products flooding the skin care market that more often than not, people get confused about what to purchase. Even a search on [...]
Safe And Effective Treatment Of Acne Vulgaris With Photopneumatic Therapy
Photopneumatic Therapy is an FDA cleared therapy and is the first painless procedure for treatment of sun damaged and aging skin. Current research showed it is also highly effective in the treatment of acne vulgaris. A wide variety of laser and light-based therapies have been utilized for acne vulgaris; however, current techniques have been limited [...]
Acne in children
Acne can be seen in the first year of life, early childhood, prepubertal age, and puberty. However, in mid-childhood, between 1-7 years, acne is uncommon, and when it is encountered it should be evaluated for hyperandrogenism. There are several subsets in childhood acne. Neonatal acne: It is actually not acne. It has been renamed as [...]
Acne in pregnancy
Acne and pregnancy interact in a variable way. In the majority, pregnancy has a beneficial effect on the activity of acne, and this is through the sebosuppressive effect of estrogens. In a small number of cases, there is a flare-up of acne requiring active intervention, especially if scarring is a threat. Acne may also appear [...]
Treatment Of Acne In a Spa
Spas primarily offers different types of specialties treatment ranging from massage, facials, exfoliation and medical treatments of skin disorders with a supervision of licensed health care professional. A medical spa provides comprehensive therapeutic and restorative care that promises to restore beauty and health. Various new treatment options to treat acne have been introduced which can [...]
The Most Efective Combined Therapy For Acne
With many research and study, combined therapy with retinoids, Benzoyl peroxide gels and topical antibiotics are found to be most effective in treating most of the acne infections. With this type of therapy, the retinoids prevents or removes comedones, whereas benzoyl peroxide or any other topical antibiotics eradicates P.Acnes. The retinoids also enhances absorption of [...]
Acne Treatment With Benzoyl Peroxide
Benzoyl peroxide (BPO) is a commonly used topical treatment for mild acne which was introduced in 1934. It is safe preparation for all adults and children, and it can be used in pregnancy too. Despite the fact that there are only few randomized trials that have been published, BPO is considered the standard topical treatment [...]
Topical Antibiotics Used for Acne Treatment
Acne is common skin disease that affect almost 90% of the people at some time in their life. Acne is caused by abnormal desquamation of follicular epithelium which results in obstruction of the pilosebaceous canal. The obstruction of the pilosebaceous canal further leads to the formation of comedones. These comedones becomes inflamed due to overgrowth [...]
Safety of Oral Antibiotics Used in Acne Therapy
Although in most of the mild cases of acne over the counter acne products or prescription topical therapies alone can be very effective, there are often cases for which oral antibiotics are needed to control disease. As for severe kind of acne combination of oral antibiotics with other drugs like retinoids and benzoyl peroxide can [...]
New Study Suggest Rifampin is the most sensitive antibiotic for acne vulgaris
In a study Researchers at Shiraz University, Department of Biology of School of Sciences, Iran found that rifampin was the most sensitive antibiotic in vitro for acne vulgaris.They suggest a combination of rifampin with other antibiotics may be more efficient in treating Acne vulgaris.They report their findings in the December 2008 issue of the Indian [...]
