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Date Posted: 06:17:55 06/16/17 Fri
Author: Knuit Holt
Subject: Acne - What is acne. Advices to prevent cure acne whiteheads blackheads pimples

About Acne - What Can You Do to Cure or Alleviate

Acne?

By Knut Holt

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Acne gives the combination of symptoms like greasy

skin, white heads, black heads, pimples, inflammation

and scar formation. Acne mostly affects young people

in the age 14 - 25, but also sometimes older persons,

like women in their menopause. Most teenagers

experience outburst of acne, some only little, but for

others acne may develop into a serious skin ailment

with great cosmetic impact.

THE SKIN ANATOMY

To understand the acne process, some knowledge about

skin anatomy and physiology is essential:

The skin has there layers: The outer layer called

epidermis consists of epithelial cells. Under this

lies the dermis consisting of connective tissue. At

the bottom there is a layer called the hypodermis

consisting mostly of fat cells.

The skin has narrow pores extending from the surface

down to the top of the sub-dermis, called hair

follicles. A hair extend from a growth zone in the

bottom of each hair follicle and out at the skin

surface. Around the hair in the dermis, there are

small glands called sebaceous glands. These glands

produce a fatty substance, sebum, which empty through

the follicle opening and lubricates the hair and the

skin.

THE ACNE PROCESS

Acne starts by the glands in the hair follicles

increasing their sebum production. This will in the

beginning only cause greasy skin. Eventually the sebum

in the entrance of the follicles mixes with dead

epithelial cells. This mix reacts chemically to forms

hard props, comedones that close the pore entrances.

According to the color of the comedones, they are

called blackheads or white heads.

Then the closed hair follicle gets filled with sebum

and swell. The swollen follicle then gets infected by

bacteria. The bacteria and the accumulated sebum cause

the follicle and the surrounding skin to get inflamed,

forming a pimple. At last the inflamed follicle burst

and empties its content. Eventually the affected area

heals. Sometimes the inflammation reaches deep into

the skin surrounding the follicle and destroys skin

tissue. This will cause more or less distinct scars

that may reside permanently. Typically an affected

person will have follicles in all these stages of the

process at any given time.

THE CAUSES OF ACNE

The increased hormone production in the puberty

stimulate to increased sebum production. The male

hormone, testosterone, seem to contribute most. Also

girls begin to produce more testosterone in the

puberty. Also in other periods, altered hormone

production may give acne, for example by women in the

menopause.

Since not all teens get acne in any degree, the

increased hormone level cannot be the whole cause of

the increased sebum production. The follicles of

affected persons must for some reason react stronger

upon the higher hormone level.

Dietary factors, like eating too much fat, too much

sugar or the wrong kind of fat may aggravate acne by

some individuals. Lack of vitamins, minerals and

essential fatty acids may also contribute to

development of acne.

Poor digestion, lazy colon and constipation aggravate

acne in some individuals, probably due to productions

of toxins in the intestines. Lazy colon may be caused

by dietary faults, like lack of fiber.

Very frequent washing and use of strong soaps

aggravate acne, and does not alleviate the condition

as many think. Rubbing, scrubbing or squeezing the

skin may also aggravate acne.

Here are some other factors that may contribute in

causing acne or aggravating the condition.

- Stress

- Some contraceptive agents

- Environmental or domestic pollution.

- Humid environments.

- Some antidepressants.

- Testosterone and anabolic steroids used for

treatment or by body-building.

- Use of some types of greasy cosmetic products.

- Some antiperspirant products.

- Exposing the skin for chlorine or other halogens, or

medicines containing halogens.

- Women may get aggravated acne 2-7 days before

menstruation.

WHAT CAN YOU DO YOURSELF TO AVOID OR TO TREAT ACNE

Sometimes Acne is so severe that special medical

treatment is required, and sometimes the causes of

acne necessitate medical treatment. But you can do

much yourself also. Here are listed things you can do

yourself to prevent or treat acne:

1. Some advices about diet that may help prevent and

cure acne:

- Do not consume a great amount of fat.

- The fat you add to the food should be natural oils.

Olive oil is ideal, but use other types of oils too,

like walnut oil, sunflower oil and soy oil. However,

do not use only soy oil as many tend to do. Using only

soy oil will give you too much of some fatty acids and

too less of others.

- Eat much fish, seafood and not so much meat.

- Eat food with a high fiber content to regulate the

digestion, like vegetables, whole cereals, full corn

bread and fruit.

2. Here are some things you should avoid.

- Do not use greasy or heavy cosmetics that clog your

skin and are difficult to wash away.

- Do not use strong irritating antiperspirants.

- Do not wash with strong soap or cleaners that dry up

your skin and take away all the natural oily

protection in your skin.

- If you perform body-building, do not use anabolic

steroids or other hormonal supplements.

- Use clothes that allow air to reach your body

surface to avoid collection of humidity and

overheating of your skin.

3. Use of rinsing milk or solutions

You can rinse your skin with mild products especially

made to dissolve the plugs in your pores, and to make

the environment in your skin unfriendly to bacteria

causing infection. Some of these products are just

products to wash your skin with one ore more times a

day; others should be on during night and flushed away

in the morning.

Salicylic acid is a mild ingredient often used in

these products to dissolve the comedones. The products

usually also contain ingredients that work

antibacterial and stimulate the skin's own cleaning

activities, like Tea tree oil or Echinacea extract.

4. Use of gels and creams to treat acne and protect

your skin

After the rinsing, you should apply some treatment

gel, cream or lotion onto your skin to achieve these

effects:

- To make your skin soft and elastic.

- To protect your skin against the environment.

- To acts further to dissolve the clogging of your

pores.

- To soothe and alleviate inflammation.

- To kill the bacteria causing infection or make an

environment hostile for the bacteria.

- To stimulate the skin to clean itself.

- To stimulate the skin to heal.

- To be used as a isolating layer between the skin

itself and cosmetics

In order to protect, make the skin soft and further

dissolve the comedones, many products contain natural

plant oils that are easily absorbed into the

epidermis, like Tea tree oil, Rose hip oil, Lavender

oil and Olive oil.

Ingredients used in products to reduce inflammation

and to stimulate healing may be: Aloe Vera extract,

Viola Tricolour extract, Rose hip oil, Vitamin E and

Vitamin A.

Tea tree oil and Grapefruit seed extract are natural

antibacterial agents used in many of these products.

In other products artificial compounds like Benzoyl

peroxide are used.

5. Oral supplements to fight the acne process and

nourish the skin

Supplements taken by mouth to nourish your skin may be

useful. The purpose of these supplements is more or

less the same as that of nourishing creams.

- To make the sebum more fluid so it drains more

easily.

- To stimulate the substance exchange and cleaning

processes in your skin,

- To stimulate your skin to heal,

- To give your skin building nutrients necessary to

heal.

Ingredients often used in these supplements to

stimulate the cleaning and healing processes in the

skin are: Vitamins A, C, B1, B2, B3, B6, C, D, E,

Folic acid, Beta carotene, Bioflavonoids, Magnesium,

Copper, Zinc, selenium, anti-oxidants from Green tea,

Metylsulfonyl methane.

Nutrient found in these products used as material to

rebuild damaged skin and to give a sebum with better

consistency are: Evening primrose oil, Olive oil, Flax

seed oil, Borage oil, Soy oil, Wheat germ oil and

Lecithin.

Gum guggul extract used in oral products has an anti-

biotic effect, and helps against spreading of the acne

infection and thus helps against scar formation.

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