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 to remember only that you should analyze your body very well; thus, only if you consider that you might suffer from hormonally-influenced acne or from any type of acne, you should immediately go to a dermatologist or at least to visit your own physician!

You should never wait and see what it follows next, because there is always something to be done and the longer you wait, the severer and more painful the treatment will be! And that’s for sure!
So, keep in mind: don’t wait and see! Analyze your body, notice the changes, go to the dermatologist!
Smile! There is hope!

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 sometime before adolescence, around the age of nine or ten, the adrenal glands started to produce dihydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS), which is an androgen. Other androgens, or so called “male” hormones, that are at work in a woman’s body are testosterone and dehydrotestosterone (DHT). They have both joined in at the onset of puberty.

And little by little, DHEAS, DHT and testosterone started to stimulate the sebaceous glands to secret more of the skin’s natural oil, called sebum. Although during this period, boys suffered a lot more from acne (since they had more male hormones), girls started also to cope with zits, spots and so on.
At that time, acne was a sign for both boys and girls. It was the symbol of the fact that they started to grow up and to head towards adolescence. Love’s bites and hot feelings came also along with acne!

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 the matter is, it could be in fact related to hormones.
These little parts of our organism are amazing! They are practically abstract and invisible, but they manage everything!
However, women will always know more when it comes to hormones because they seem to suffer the most because of them. Women are more sophisticated and sensitive than men because only they are able to bear children. They are the only creatures that can bring to this world our next presidents, astronauts, physicians, chemists, warriors, rappers, murderers, painters or simple, common people.

Women will always be different because of this single reason. They are capable of giving birth. But although some of them won’t ever have a child, they all share the same monthly physical process.
And for millions of these women, it happens like clockwork every month: cramping, mood swings, bloating, and ACNE. Before their period, women change a lot both from the physical and psychological point of view. And this happens every month, more or less sharp!
They change both from the physical and psychical point of view because hormones control everything: they control the way we feel, as well as the way we look. They can bring us acne, as well as other even severer diseas…
So, because of hormones, women’s mood is changing from a second to another; they can now cry and then laugh; they can suffer all kind of pains or inner, almost mystic deceptions. And most of then are also irritated by all those acne spots from their faces!
And it all has to do with hormones.
Experts have always known that acne is influenced by hormones, but research on this topic has been relatively limited. However, there is a recent study, conducted by dermatologist Alan Shalita, MD, which confirmed that nearly half of all women from all over the world experience acne flare-ups during the week preceding their period. We will try to find Dr. Alan Shalita’s entire study and to share with you the information, but until then let us start digging a little bit and find out more about hormonal acne.
As you might have already guessed, these articles will address only women’s problems related to acne. Men can also read so that they could find out more about their beloved wives, girlfriends or even sisters and their monthly fights against lots of more or less imaginary things.
Thus men will be able to understand women better and to be alongside them when they are in need.

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