Types and Forms of Acne
We’ve discussed about types of skins and we’ve been drawing a general overview on acne. You’ve also found out about the major potential enemies of your skin and about the major factors that could produce acne.
It’s high time for you to learn about the types of acne too, that is the forms in which this irritating skin disorder could appear on your skin. This is a very important topic, as acne appears in very different forms and sometimes people are mistakenly confound it with other skin disorders. However, the most dangerous thing is to do …nothing about acne, because you don’t know you suffer from it.
So, being able to distinguish between the types of acne is a good thing, which will help you in your battle against acne. You must know that a simple pink or red spot could get you to a cyst, if not treated, as acne can transformed from simple eruptions to more complex ones that could leave you with deep scars.
The most common types of acne are:
• Moderate Acne Vulgaris, which is the most common types of acne and which consists from four major types of spots, such as: whiteheads, blackheads, papules and pustules;
• Severe Acne Vulgaris, which is the next, severe stage of mild Acne Vulgaris and which features nodules and cysts. As you might have noticed these are no longer spots, but palpable formations that are very likely to leave you with unaesthetic scars;
• Acne Rosacea, which is a common type of acne that is sometimes mistaken for Acne Vulgaris.
There exist also some types of acne that are though to be really severe forms of this skin disorder. These are:
• Ance Conglobata, which affects rather males than females, and features large wounds and lesions and is sometimes interconnecting with other simpler forms of acne;
• Acne Fulminans, which is usually affecting young men and features severe nodules and cysts that are often apparent ulcerations; this several type of the skin disorder is in fact an abrupt onset of Acne Conglobata;
• Gram-Negative Folliculitis, which represents a bacterial infection featuring cysts and pustules;
• Pyoderma Faciale, which affects only women and consists from very painful and unaesthetic pustules, nodules and sores, which could leave you with scars.
These are the major types of acne; as you could already see, the mixed types of skins are very common, and because of this and not only the types of acne could also mix one with another resulting more complex forms of the skin disorder.
Next you will find out more about each of these types of acne, so that you could be prepared in fighting them since their first symptoms.