Archive for February, 2006
More than eighty percent of teenagers and preteens suffer from some extent of acne. It usually hits boys more often and come sometimes strike again in adulthood. It is a nuisance to have acne in your adult hood since and can also affect your life. The scientific name is Acne Vulgaris and appears mainly on the common places such as the face, neck, chest and back. It affects all ages and gender and has for centuries.
What Causes Adult Acne?
It is caused by the body producing excessive amounts of oil and as a result it combines with dead skin cells and finally blocking the pours in you skin. However acne can also be caused by other factors such as vegetable oil, petroleum, some medication and or steroids. Other factors include the lack of exercise and poor dieting.
In most cases, acne is caused by the body secreting Androgens and is usually secreted during puberty. It is also known as a sex hormone and can be secreted in a later stage of life during adulthood.
Man and women both secret Androgens and its by doing so causes the excessive production of oil from the skin’s oil glands. The bacteria called Propionibacterium acne usually builds up and causes pus. In some cases it may burst into the skin causing cysts.
Treating Adult Acne
Treatment is available to adults and children of all ages and almost ninety percent of all acne patients recover from acne. However when undergoing treatment you may need to continue for months even years depending on how server your acne is. Consult your local dermatologist for more information.
They say the best treatment is prevention. So why is acne still a problem for most people? In the western world they do not believe that diet plays a major role in the cause of acne, when in some countries around the world people do not face an acne problem. Is it due to diet or genetics? This is still debatable topic and have to real conclusions yet.
However some people believe that diet does play a large role in the cause and prevention of acne and there are people who believe the high sugar and fatty fast foods do not play a huge role in acne. So how come some people are affected by acne even if they don’t eat fast foods. It is a matter only people with acne will have to worry about.
The one and only fact about acne is that dirt does not cause acne. It is caused by the oil in our body biding with dead skin cells and then blocking our pours on our skin. When this happens it creates a home for bacteria to grow and cause infections and inflammation.
To sum it up eating fatty foods may cause our bodies to produce more oil but than again your body could already be producing excessive amounts without the fatty foods. And hygine does not prevent acne, so it means that your body must already have bacteria present on your skin. So how do we prevent acne?
Some say that Zinc gluconate and other antibiotics when administered orally can be an effective for of treatment, and the same goes for insulin, however there are no major studies on this topic and should be approached with caution.
There is a controversial book called the acne prescription that talk about avoiding dairy products and having a strict diet. In this book it was recommends few things that are not scientifically proven to be effective however it is still a theory. In 2005 a paper was published outlining the link between milk and acne.
On present day, there are research being done on a new form or therapy using lasers. What scientists have found it is that laser can burn away the follicle sacs where the oil clogs the skin pours and the oil producing glands called the sebaceous glands. However this is still a new form of treatment and could damage the skin during the treatment. So you’ll have to wait for this treatment to be a reality.
Acne affects almost everybody at some stage in their life. It is known as an inflammatory skin disease caused by the excessive secretion of oil in the human body. It happens due when the Plosebaseou, the hair follicles in the skin structures connecting the Sebaeous glans biologically change.
How acne is formed is really quite simple. When there is too much oil on the skin, the oil blocks the hair follicles. The oil than combines with the dead skin cells and clogs your pours. It happens mostly with people who often eat oily foods.
Acne affects many different parts of the body, face, arms, back, and more. Once your pores are blocked it creates a comfortable environment for bacteria to grown on the skin. As a result your skins inflames, like small lesions / acne.
There are different types of acne. For example acne can be come in a blackish elevations and even a pale yellow or small white bumps. A more serious form of acne is in a form of a rash and looks like the shape of a boil-like reddish bumpy swelling. As the acne clears it can often leave visible scaring.
During puberty acne may arise more often due to the fact they the bodies chemically unbalanced and excessive mail hormone testosterone is in abundance. When the body produces excessive amounts of oil, it then appears on the skin and causes acne. Even till to day there doctors cannot predict the length that acne will remain or disappear completely from your body.
Affective millions of people worldwide acne also affects the mentality of the person suffering from it. It can cause stress and depression and social unacceptance. In conclusion acne is not be taken lightly or neglected. In fact acne should be properly treated.