Do you have acne? Do you wake up every morning looking if you’ve got any new pimples over night?
If this sounds like you, you are NOT alone. I and millions of people are and still have been through this.
To set the record straight, acne is not a teenage year skin problem; it affects as many 25-45 year old adults as it does teenagers. As a whole it affects nearly half of all adult women.
Different things are a trigger of acne, but mostly acne is cause by your hormones, by stress and some foods.
The sun seems to be a healer of acne, but it’s a very temporary relief that will hit you back with a vengeance as exposure to the sun increase plugging of the pores of your skin and increase blackheads and whiteheads.
Why stress is a factor for acne? Stress can raise the level of cortisol, and other hormones that cause increased secretion of oil in your pores which incites acne.
Greasy food has nothing to do with acne. Again, it’s certain hormones in food that favors acne like in skin milk, which has been proven to be even worse than whole milk for acne.
How acne is formed
Your skin is in a continuous cell renewal. As old cells die, they mixed with the skin natural oil and are extracted from your skin through the pores. Acne is formed when dead cells don’t shed off properly, and the cells become sticky. This sticky cell when mix with the skin oil forms a plug in the hair follicle (the area deep in the pore). That plug holds the oil and bacteria in the follicle and begins to swell as your skin produces more oil. The result of this is a red bump called a pimple and it can become none-inflammatory acne which is called mild acne to inflammatory acne which is called moderate to severe acne, and is most of the time painful.
Once the inflammatory pimple heals it leave a brown color blemish that leaves you skins with very unattractive dark spots which take weeks to months to disappear completely, and are very hard to hide even with makeup.
Once acne is out of control the damages it leaves on your skin can be irreparable. The best way to control acne is prevention, so not only you will control your acne before it forms, but won’t have to pay the high price of scares left on your skins.
Oral medication for acne is the strongest acne relief you can get, and most time than not makes a dramatic difference on your skin. However, it may have severe side effects. Some oral treatments are known to attack the liver and caused birth defect if taken during pregnancy.
Another side effect with oral acne medicine is that you have to stay completely away from the sun while taking them (which most likely will be years). The side effects are dark stains area on your skin, similar to aging stains.
The best prevention for acne is external treatment. There are excellent treatments out there that will not only heal your old acne to start with, but act as prevention for recurring acne, and repair the damages done by your old acne. It will even heal the dark spots, and since you won’t be getting any new pimples, your skin will look completely clear and you won’t suffer from any of the side effects cause by medication. You will be as good as if you had never suffered from acne.
