Acne Magazine

Since I found the concept of baby acne so interesting (yeah, it doesn’t take much to entertain me sometimes), I figured I’d do a little more reading up on it and I found some other interesting facts and tidbits about baby acne that may be of use to new parents.  As I had stated in the previous post, baby acne often does not appear on the baby’s face for a couple weeks after it is born, it can have sort of a delayed reaction to the mother’s hormones crossing the placenta.

There are a few things that may aggravate the baby’s acne.  These are actually some of the same things that irritate adult acne, which is also interesting to note.  When a baby is hot or aggravated, the acne can appear worse, as in more red and irritated as well as inflamed.  Also, hot liquids or milk being spilt on the baby’s face or around the mouth may inflame the acne. 

There may be dietary factors that can aggravate the baby’s acne as well, but these also tread on the area of rashes, since many baby’s may be born with allergies to certain foods and eating these foods can lead to breakouts of rashes that may look very similar to baby acne, only a little more on the bumpy, rough side. 

Baby acne can stick around for up to 6 months sometimes, apparently it is not unusual for the unfortunate condition to come and go, so parents may just have to stick it out and make sure they don’t aggravate it too much.  Hey, at least it’s not going to damage the baby’s self esteem at that age yet, since they don’t even know it’s there.