Acne is one of the simple inflammatory skin disease, which affects the pilosebaceous units (skin structures consisting of a hair follicle and its associated sebaceous gland). In most cases acne develops in puberty because of the surge of testosterone, the most causative factor in acne. In the United States its comparatively simple disease affects from 5 to 15% of the population.
There are four forms of acne. They are the followings:
- whiteheads
- pimples
- cysts
- blackheads
What causes acne?
The main reasons, which cause acne, are the follows:
- Unhygienic living habits such as excessive consumption of tea, coffee, alcohol or tobacco can easily cause acne
- Acne is caused when sebaceous or oil glands come to life around puberty. When male hormones which are produced in the adrenal glands of both boys and girls stimulate these glands, acne are resulting as a side effect.
- Bacteria which live in everyone’s skin but generally mind their own business, feast on this oil, multiply, and cause the surrounding tissues to become inflamed.
- Chronic constipation and wrong eating habits can cause acne.
Acne treatment
Unfortunately, there is no cure which can prevent acne. But there are a wide variety of treatments designed to keep acne under control. Acne is caused by several different factors, therefore you can find many diverse acne treatments. Each acne treatment aims one or several of these factors.
It is not so easy to cure acne. Taking into account the number of ways in which it can be cured, acne treatment can become a big theory in itself. There are a lot of preventing things. Some of them are as follows:
1. Acne treatments using Bacteria killing – it means killing the bacteria that are caused by the blocked follicles, reducing the secretion of oils from the glands, normalizing the follicle cell lifecycle, and exfoliating the skin.
2. Treatment by Zinc – You should take it in therapeutic doses of 55 mg three times a day. Zinc is available in tablet and in capsule form.
3. Home treatment. Cucumber is the best tonic for the skin of the face. Apply over the face, eyes, and neck for fifteen to twenty minutes.
4. Niacin and Vitamin A are successfully used to treat acne. Vitamin therapy should comprise the intake of about 100 mg niacin, three times daily, and 49,500 IU (international units) of vitamin A, three times daily. Vitamin E dose of 400 mg, should be taken once daily. This therapy should be continued for about a month.
5. Another effective home remedy for pimples and blackheads is a teaspoon of coriander juice, mixed with a pinch of turmeric powder.
Prevention tips
The most common things that can aggravate your acne are: cleansing your skin too much, squeezing, picking, or popping zits. Excessive cleansing, particularly with the overzealous use of abrasive facial scrubs can irritate your skin, and worsen inflammation.
Squeezing and picking acne spots may increase inflammation and can cause further disruption of the acne oil sac. This can contribute to leakage of the sac’s contents much deeper into the skin and therefore increase more inflammation.
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