Acne Treatment

Have You Known This? Skin Care

After all those advices and threats…, we’ve decided to make you smile! At least a little bit.
We’ve reached some analyzes and charts showing some numbers that should both amaze you and make you smile.
So, have you known that one square inch of your skin is home to:

• 65 hairs
• 100 sebaceous glands
• 78 yards [...]

Hormonal Acne: Last but not Least, There Is Hope!

If the last articles scared you, try to forget and don’t worry! Today there are lots of treatments and lotions against any kind of disease and there is nothing that you should be afraid of, so don’t even think to worry!
Although it is normal to worry, you should control our thoughts and feelings. Try [...]

Hormonal Acne: 2. Problematic Cycles

So, although it all started with puberty, for most of the young women acne remained somewhere in the past. They won’t be able to tell you when they stopped suffering from acne.
Thus, many women pass into adulthood without outgrowing their acne. Other may not develop this skin disease until their 20s and 30s, experiencing persistent [...]

Hormonal Acne: 1. How Did It All Started?

What could be the relation between love and acne? Between warm, touching feelings and an irritating skin disease? The grotesque, strange connection between these two different things is made by hormones!
Love and acne have the same root; they have both begun to talk through you starting with puberty. Those were the times, weren’t they?…
So, starting [...]

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 [...]

Acne, Hormones and Women

We’ve discussed about corticosteroids and we’ve said that these are some hormones or drugs that have hormone-like effects. But our bodies contain other many, many hormones and our health depends on their being properly balanced.
When you feel that something is not working inside you and physicians shake their heads without being able to say what [...]

7. Thyroid Preparations

Thyroid preparations are represented by some thyroid medications, such as Thiouracil or Thiourea, and they are used for stimulating the thyroid gland in patients with low thyroid function.
However, these preparations are known for triggering acne. If taken in large quantities, iodine, which also helps to regulate the thyroid function, might as well cause acne breakouts.

As [...]

6. Quinine

Quinine is also a very old medication that is prescribed for a very old disease: malaria. Malaria remained a plague of the third world’s countries and if you are traveling in these regions you should know that malaria still exists and represents a real risk.

But because quinine may trigger acne breakouts, be sure to ask [...]

5. INH

INH or Isoniazid is typically used for treating TB or tuberculosis. Although tuberculosis represents a disease that was thought to have been largely eradicated, it experienced resurgence in the late 1980s among the poor and homeless populations, as well as in patients suffering from AIDS.

Known for being a disease triggered by poverty and the inexistence [...]

4. Immuran

Like other immunosuppressants, Immuran is used for suppressing the immune system in patients awaiting an organ transplant. This medication can be helpful in preventing organ rejection.

But on the other hand, it can also suppress the body’s natural ability to fight the bacteria that cause acne.