Comedones, pustules ... How have their skin?

Few things can ruin adolescence as well as acne. The most superficial and benign, it can take many forms deep serious requiring intensive treatment and prolonged.

Acne is caused by inflammation of the sebaceous glands of the skin. This is the problem of the most common skin regardless of age. It affects about 85% of adolescents. In 30% of cases, acne persists into adulthood. Although there is no panacea against acne, many treatments are able to reverse the steps responsible for this problem.

The main lesions
Superficial lesions
They start with the black or comedo, which corresponds to the obstruction of a small channel draining the oil. This sebum is secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin at the time of hormonal changes of puberty. The black dot blushed, surmounted by a hint of white.

Deep lesions
Several acne join to form real pustules. Elsewhere, we see the formation of cysts and abscesses.

The affected areas are the face, shoulders, back and sometimes chest.

What you should certainly not be

Press the buttons between the fingers or scratching. The inflammatory and infected lesions may extend into the neighborhood;
Assaulting the skin daily with solutions of alcohol or sulfur. These treatments are certainly effective at the time, but this is just to use extra time to time;
Use at every turn the puller comedones;
Topical cortisone. It is useless, even dangerous;
Aggravate acne cosmetics, including creams fat. Outlaw also soap abrasives.
Take care of your skin first by sparing

Degrease the skin with sweet almond oil, camphor moderately solutions, sprays antiseptic;
Make your bathroom with mild soaps;
Use sulfur with caution and from time to time;
Take regular vitamins A, H, B6;
You can sunbathe, but reasonable;
For girls, treat your skin during menstruation;
The acne can affect adolescents who suffer. If the shoots are important to know both that DMARDs exist and secondly it may be useful to offer adolescent counseling;
Food had no effect on acne, no more than sex.
The treatment must be closely followed
From small local interventions on pustules sessions of ultra-violet rays, antibiotics of the tetracycline family are commonly prescribed.

Are counter to the topical benzoyl peroxide 5%, and associations-resorcinol sulphide.

The problem of isotretinoin
This medicine modern and effective acne resistant, however, is totally forbidden to pregnant women. Contraception is required one month before, during treatment and one month after stopping it. Treatment can be long and it tends to dry out the mucous.

 

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