Tweet Hello everyone. This is part one of a three part article series on the pluses, minuses, ups and downs and cost points of medical acne treatments versus natural and herbal acne treatments, which of course you know are the ones I favor after many years of struggling with acne in my youth. It is a very personal choice when considering the various bullet points on the two different approaches to treating acne, and that is where your judgement and personal experiences come in. So, enjoy our three part article series! Just ask any teenage girl if she would...
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Medical Acne Treatments
Medical acne treatments are administered by a qualified physician or dermatologists. This category will most likely heavily focus on accutane, the most talked about medical acne treatment, but will also talk about other medical acne treatments such as antibiotics.
Cortisone Shots for Acne Emergencies
Tweet Have you ever felt a huge, painful acne cyst developing (as I like to call it, “growing”), underneath your skin’s surface? It’s almost like I’ve trained myself to feel the first stirrings of a zit brewing beneath my skin’s suface. It doesn’t even have to be a huge cyst – I can usually tell, after years of struggling with the skin condition in my teens, when and where I’m going to get one before it even pops up. I remembers a close family member of mine telling me that she had gone to her dermatologist to get a...
On Pill for Acne? Don’t Mix with St. Johns Wort!
Tweet St. John’s Wort is a common herbal remedy that is used for mild depression, anxiety and general feelings of malaise. It’s actually quite a successful natural antidepressant for many people. That is why it has enjoyed such huge success over here in America as a supplement, just like it had in Britain and Sweden years ago (we’re usually behind most other countries when it comes to both medications being available, and herbal remedies that are quite effective, unfortunately). However, when there started to be reports in Britain and Sweden that some women were getting pregnant who were on...
Depression Linked to Acne Itself, and Not Acne Drugs?
Tweet There has been a lot of negative press about a certain very popular serious acne drug especially, called Accutane or Isotretinoin as it’s drug name, and depression and even sometimes suicidal thoughts and suicide. It was thought that the actual cause of the suicidal thoughts, depression, and ultimately in the most unfortunate cases, actual suicide, were linked to the drug itself. However, new research is showing that the correlation between acne drugs and depression may not really be a correlation at all. Instead, it may be the fact that a teen or person has acne at all that...
Remembering the Pill for Acne – Tricks
Tweet If you are one of many women who use the birth control pill not only for the obvious benefit of not getting pregnant, but also to help control your acne flareups as a hormonal acne control method, then you know how hard it can be to remember to take them every day, at the same time of day, so they are more effective. The reason for taking them at the same time every day, preferably in the morning, is that it gets your hormones on more of a “schedule” and your body in more of a habit as...
Acne Drug Tetracycline Linked to Bowel Problems
Tweet Well, this is definitely something that did not surprise me in the least. Researchers are looking at data that is showing people who have been on long term antibiotic treatment for acne with the drug family Tetracycline, and possibly also Accutane and Doxycycline, have an almost double risk of developing bowel diseases. These diseases include serious problems like ulcerative colitis, Chrohns disease, and the most common one found, inflammatory bowel disease. Of course, there is probably also a higher risk of irritable bowel syndrome as well, although that one was not specifically mentioned in what I heard. The...
Medical Acne Treatment Alternatives to Accutane
Tweet Accutane (isotretinoin) is an OTC (over the counter) product used for treatment of severe acne problems. Isotretinoin is given as an oral medication, only prescribed by a dermatologist. Isotretinoin was first developed as chemotherapy medication for pancreatic and brain cancer and other. His chemical composition is retinoid; he is derivative of a synthetic form of Vitamin A and is found in small quantities normally in the body. But in 1982 Hoffman-La Roche announced isotretinoin as Accutane, a revolutionary systemic drug for treatment of severe acne problem. Accutane targets sebaceous glands and reduces oil production. But as all drugs...
Acne Treatment with Tetracycline
Tweet Acne is common skin problem, often treated by dermatologists. In fact, it can affect almost every one of us at any time, but teenagers are the ones who get it most often. Alternative treatments for acne are one of the fastest growing methods to treat acne because people are so aware of putting drugs and chemicals into their body that can be potentially harmful, but not everyone can be successful with this kind of treatment. When acne appears, the first thing people do, they buy various acne products. For some lucky ones these cleansers work just fine, but...
Most Popular Acne Treatment Drugs of This Millenium
Tweet The most common skin complaint, as we discussed in one previous post, is acne, at a rate of just over 80% of dermatologist complaints. Acne is basically, as you know, a sort of explosion of bacteria and infection which is usually seen in or near the sebaceous glands in different parts of the human body including the face, neck, upper back, and shoulders. Today there are many of the best acne treatment products available in the market place. When it measured best acne treatment anyone has to keep in mind that the best acne treatment for one person...
How Do You Know When You Need a Dermatologist?
Tweet People, young and old, who suffer from acne or problem skin, tend to usually ask this question if they’ve tried a few things for their skin to help clear it up and nothing seems to be working. The short answer is, when a few other options that are alternative and natural in nature and lifestyle change oriented, have been attempted by individuals with acne prone skin, then they probably should go seek a professional dermatologist’s evaluation and opinion on what should work for their skin. I went to a dermatologist for the first time when I was about...
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