Hormonal Acne. Women Only; Guys Allowed
Hormonal acne is represented by the acne breakouts that appear only before and during the women’s period.
This kind of acne is caused by the hormonal imbalance produced in the women’s bodies during this time. Once this period is over, acne slowly disappears as if it were never there. Until next month, women will be free to enjoy their lives as girlfriends, wives, sisters or daughters!
As girls and women might have already noticed hormonal acne is likely to fail to respond to traditional therapies, such as topical retinoids and systemic or topical antibiotics.
Physicians usually have about six clues that can help them to identify whether your acne is influenced by hormones or not. These clues are the following:
• Adult-onset acne or acne breakouts that appear for the first time in adult women
• Acne flare-ups preceding the menstrual cycle
• A history of irregular menstrual cycles
• Increased facial oiliness
• Hirsutism or excessive growth of hair, or hair in unusual places
• Elevated levels of certain androgens in the blood stream
Hormonally influenced acne typically appears for the first time around the age of 20 – 25, although it can strike as well both teen girls and mature women. However, it becomes most persistent in women over the age of 30.
In these cases patients are usually experiencing acne lesions on the lower face, that is especially the chin and the jaw line. While some women may have breakouts also on their chest and back, most of them have acne blemishes exclusively on the face.
Hormonally-influenced acne is usually moderate and it gets limited to inflammatory papules, as well as small inflammatory nodules and occasional comedones. However, the women’s faces aren’t perfect anymore and this makes hormonally-influenced acne even more irritating then “normal” acne.
When you know that you suffer from acne, you’re at least involved in fighting it and you hope that someday it will all disappear. But when you suffer from time to time because of this irritating disease, it is even more annoying. Acne becomes like a real phantom that haunts your from time to time. As if that period weren’t enough painful and irritating!
We will next present a scenario that will introduce you to the inner mechanism of hormonally-influenced acne.