What is the ACNE? Acne FAQ

What is acne?
Acne (acne, acne rash) - disease of the sebaceous glands. Typically, acne represent an inflammatory knots (acne) in red, often painful, and not inflammatory elements, which constitute more painless black. Acne on the skin are the face, neck, chest and back. This is a chronic, long-term illness ( "acne disease"), causing severe emotional distress, particularly among young people and require a long, careful treatment.

Why am I having acne?
Elements of acne arise from the sebaceous hair-clogging in the chimney. This occurs when excess skin cluster lard and exfoliated skin scales cornea. Such conditions are favourable for breeding bacteria that can cause acne on the skin.
In adolescence and young women cause acne may be the natural age-related changes hormonal balance ( "hormonal surge"), sometimes not passing into adulthood and individuals as well as more serious hormonal changes associated with sexual violation to make hormones.

What mechanism appear Blackheads?
When the cornea flakes accumulate in abundance, and together they form a cork - komedon. This plugin close sebaceous hair protocol. As a result, skin fat accumulated in the sebaceous glands. In these circumstances, bacteria that normally live in the sebaceous glands, are beginning to grow strongly. This leads susceptible to inflammation - the appearance of acne and Blackheads.

What aggravates during acne?
Provoke acne rash factors:
* Cosmetics (preparations containing lanolin, influenza, sulfur, - creams, salmon, powder)
* Tyanuschie skin (such as mobile phone), squeezing black dots and Blackheads, self-treatment
* 70% of women's disease exacerbated by the week before menstruation
* The psychological stress and depression
* Endocrine diseases of genital organs and glands
Acne is not linked to poor hygiene. Too frequent washing may aggravate the skin and dried over the disease.

Nutrition does not affect the formation of acne: chocolate, butter, fat, acute food may not cause acne. Nevertheless, some of the patients said that certain foods aggravate the disease, in such cases, these products should be avoided.
The summer period is not necessarily accompanied by a remission. The fact is that UV radiation has the ability to masks and disinfectants. But this temporary effect is fraught with further exacerbation of the disease, because high doses of local UFO weakened immune protection, reinforce and further inhibit the rejection of skin scales in holes sebaceous glands, resulting in an increase in discharge.

What should I do if I have Blackheads / acne rashes ?
To solve the problem of acne rashes need as soon as possible, consultation dermatologist. Regular cosmetics, advertised as a means of acne, does not have the necessary set of medicines for the treatment of acne. "Remove acne" are not always successful.
Cosmetology procedures are not curative, but only subsidiary.
Acne disease - skin diseases, with their degrees.
Only a doctor dermatologist can and must choose the correct treatment.
Self always insufficient or ineffective, and often dangerous, because it could lead to a deterioration of acne disease, serious complications, scarring.

Should I get rid of those surveyed had acne or Blackheads?
The appearance of acne in people older than 25 years should serve as an occasion to conduct a detailed survey of the body, acne, because at this age may be a symptom of a disease or hormonal changes of internal organs.

How to care for acne rashes ?
In order to get rid of acne and carry out effective treatment of acne, you must first:
* Hinder acne
* Destroy existing acne
* Reduction of cutaneous lard appearance
* Dopolnyayuschy process of breeding bacteria
* Reducing inflammation
The proper skin cleansing - a required step to rid the elements of acne. This is not always understand the foreign doctors, leading to treat acne rash template, one or two "recommended" that stated in the instructions, medication.

Sometimes, for certain treatments are not acne dermatology, doctors and others - for example, therapists or beauty without seniority in dermatology, and even no medical education. Our experience shows that it is difficult to cure acne, without any significant clinical experience in dermatology. Only a full understanding of etiology and pathogenesis of the disease, knowledge of mechanisms for long-term care and practice their application can guarantee a reliable result.