Comedonal acne is really a whole different type of acne. Comedonal acne is a situation where acne rears itself in a way that you get lesions instead of pimples.
Comedonal acne is most common on one’s chin or their forearms. People suffering from this type of acne usually have “sandpaper” like skin. Comedonal acne can be treated with Retin-A.
Comedonal is an equal opportunity type of acne, targeting both males and females equally and people of all ages. This type of acne is actually very common.
Unfortunately, there is not much you can do to prevent Comedonal acne. Scientists are conflicted, but there are theories that this type of acne is highly genetic.
To treat this type of acne, you want to either use Retin-A/Differin, salicylic acid, or benzoyl peroxide. To learn more about each individual treatment, feel free to click on the links above. Retin-A is the more expensive, “commercial” choice. Both salicylic acid and benzoyl peroxide can do wonders for many and will likely be much cheaper. The main side effect from both of those treatments is drying of the skin.
If you are pregnant or think you may be pregnant, it is important to be very careful when you go about treating your acne. Most acne treatments have active ingredients at about 5-15% of the treatment overall that could potentially have harmful side effects.
There are few treatments for acne that are specifically made for pregnant mothers.
I could sit here and list dozens of potential treatments that “should be” safe for you to take during your pregnancy, but that would not be fair. To tell you the truth there are very few people that are qualified to give you such important advice. Talk to both your doctor and your dermatologist before taking any type of treatment for acne. This is too serious of an issue to just “blow over”.
Generally though, you want to stay away from the high powered treatments full of chemicals and try to gravitate towards the acne treatments that have the most natural active ingredients.
Cystic pimples are one of the worse types of acne imaginable. Cystic pimples are usually a lot bigger, more noticeable, and more painful then normal pimples are. Adult cystic acne can be worse then cystic acne one gets in their teen years for many reasons:
- Adults are still not expected to have serious acne problems, even though nearly half of all adults are suffering from acne. If you are an adult with cystic acne, then that is even worse!
- A lot of cystic acne treatments are geared towards teenagers. Adult acne can be fundamentally different then acne that an adolescent gets.
- In many cases, adult acne is triggered by stress. Getting more acne certainly does not help someone be less stressed out.
Here are a few things to remember if you are an adult suffering from cystic acne:
- You are not the only one! Like I said earlier, there are millions of adults suffering from acne difficulties, your acne problem will only be as bad as you make it out to be.
- Do not pop your cystic pimples! That is a surefire way to leave you with acne scars, which can stay on your face forever and cost thousands of dollars to treat.
Adult acne can sometimes be fundamentally different then acne teens and pre teens get. Acne that people get in their younger years is generally caused by hormones. Like I explained in this article, what causes acne, sebum production is a main ingredient for acne. Sebum production rises significantly once someone hits their pre-teen years and begins to fall in their early twenties.
Adults are [mostly] past their hormonal fluctuations. Many times adults get acne because of stress or a poor diet. Adult acne is present in half of adult women and about a third of adult men, so this is a serious, widespread issue.
Since adult acne is a whole different situation than acne in a younger person, it needs to be treated differently. The best thing that you can do is making an appointment with a dermatologist. Simply put, do not trust anyone’s advice that is not a professional in the skin care field. Dermatologists also have the power to prescribe you powerful treatments that you cannot buy over the counter.
Adult acne is not the same as acne that attacks teenagers, and they should not be treated the same.
Every single speck of acne can be traced back to a complication of the pilosebaceous unit, simple enough, right? A pilosebaceous unit is a combination of a hair follicle, sebum, and an actual hair. There isn’t much that you can do about your hair follicle’s and your hairs, but sebum is a little easier to “experiment” with.
Sebum is produced by sebaceous glands. At the start of puberty, sebum production rises to help fuel the devlopment of someone from a child to an adult. Sebum production begins to rise substancially in a child’s pre-teens and begins to fall in a person’s early twenties, which coincides with most people’s most troubled years with acne. Sebum is basically the oil in your face.
What you can do about it:
Natural, cheap/free treatment: Live a healthy clean lifestyle. Obviously washing your face at least twice a day will cut down on the oil on your face, which is what you want to do, but you may be surprised to hear that eating healthy can also help. Eating a high fat diet increases the amount of sebum in your skin, eating a well balanced diet and drinking lots of water will do wonders for your face, and it will be free!
Another option is prescription Accutane. Accutane helps treat sebum levels and uses Isotrentinoin as its main ingredient. It has helped a lot of people! Talk to your dermatologist about Accutane the next time you speak with him or her if you are interested and click on the link above if you want to learn more about Isotrentinoin.