Baby Bumps: Acne During Pregnancy
Dorothea, a girl I’ve known since I was five and she was eight, was always the object of much envy among the girls owing to her flawless skin and milk and roses complexion. And then she had a baby. For the first two months of her pregnancy, Dottie had such an acute acne attack that she looked as though someone had painted red pustules on her face at random. She was 23 then, and though the horrible pustules disappeared gradually, once she had her baby, the scars did not. In fact, they gave me nightmares for a long time! No ok, that was an exaggeration, but the point is that even someone who has never had acne before can get it during pregnancy.
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Birds & Bees: Sexual Myths And Acne
Ahem…no sniggering at the back there. This is a serious topic and will be dealt with as such. Whatever else we know or do not know about acne, one thing we are sure of is that masturbation causes acne. 100 percent. No, wait a minute: you’ve got it wrong, acne only happens if you don’t have sex for, like, three years at a stretch or something. Wrong, wrong, wrong. When I was 15 or so, and struggling to come to terms with pimples so large they could only be called warts, well-intentioned adults who should have known better drilled the above into my head.
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Hormonal Acne & Hormonal Acne Treatment
Hormonal acne treatment is classified by dermatologists as the best way to treat female hormonal acne, no matter what the severity may be. It is believed that such changes can trigger androgens contained in the sebaceous glands to change, becoming swollen, very sensitive and masculinized. Most of this happens during puberty. The resulting problem is an increase in oil production which can block both hair follicles and other pores, leading to blackheads, whiteheads and cysts. It also increases the chances that the bacterium (propionibacterium) will over produce.
A Glandular Tale: Hormonal Treatment and Acne
Since it has been definitively established that increased hormonal activity leads to acne, hormonal treatment ought to control acne, right? Um…only in women, folks. I kid you not, because study after study has established that in most women, acne improves with hormonal treatment. The fact is that the majority of women suffering from acne usually try the usual acne remedies like topical lotions and cleansers. However, about 60 percent of these women either do not respond to standard acne treatments or develop resistance to medication.
To go over the basics once more, acne is caused by the actions of the male hormone androgen on oil glands that enlarge and become increasingly sensitive, producing excessive oil and leading to clogging of pores. That in turn causes white heads and blackheads, which, with the help of acne bacteria (P. Acnes), inflame to become ugly red pimples and pustules. Read more on A Glandular Tale: Hormonal Treatment and Acne…
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Late Trauma: Why Do Adults (Post-Teens) Get Acne?
With the kind of family history that I have, most of my cousins have acne in one form or another, except my cousin Deborah, who was the object of general envy because, at 24, she had perfect, glowing skin and was thought to have escaped the family curse. Lo, by the time she was 26 and about to get married in two months, she developed acne, and it has persisted. Now, at 31, she has the typical acne victim’s scarred and pockmarked face and has become famous in the family as the one that almost got away.
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