Treatment Options For Acne Scar
Acne Scar has a significant impact on ones self-image and quality of life. Even clinically mild acne may cause considerable social embarrasment. So ones perception of the severity of the problem is an important function is choosing treatment. Several options regarding treatment could be considered. Some of the common technique will be discussed here.
OTC or [...]
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 the Internet [...]
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 [...]
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 the [...]
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 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 be highly effective. Patients and their parents [...]
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 [...]
Does eating Chocolate causes acne
The most Controversial topics among the people of all ages. Acne is the skin disease which affects almost 85 to 100% of people at any time during our lives. So there has been many debate about whether eating chocolate could really lead to acne. Although there is no absolute proof that chocolate causing acne, some [...]
