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lördag 24 oktober 2009

What Is the Best Cystic Acne Treatment?

By Peter Skonctue

Cystic acne is a more advanced stage of acne. This severe form of acne takes the shape of large and painful boils showing up on the skin of the face. If cystic acne is not treated properly, it can leave painful and ugly scarring on your face.

Researchers are still looking into the causes of cystic acne, even though many scientific tests show them to be due to an upsurge of hormones produced by the body. The oil glands in the skin become overactive due to an influx of these hormones causing them to produce e more oil and sebum than normal.

This causes the swelling of the oil glands under the skin, which then begin to harden instead of secreting the oil into the hair follicle linings on the surface of the skin like they should.

These oil glands are then inflamed, and they are in fact infected. At this point they are red ad extremely painful. This is what we call cystic acne, and they appear as red lesions.

It's somewhat hard to actually treat cystic acne, though a dermatologist might be able to help you. He or she will tell you to use pharmaceutical drugs such as Isotretinoin, or even antibiotics that will fight your infection.

You need to try to resist the urge to squeeze the acne. It will provide you with a little relief, and you might think that everything is fine. Yes, you will scar, and you might believe that you can live with a little scarring. What you probably can't live with is the cystic acne coming back and being a lot worse than it actually was.

The treatment for this will mean that you won't be able to use moisturizers or even heavy makeup, at least not where the infection is. If you use a chemical based makeup, then you'll definitely end up with a serious problem. If you exfoliate the skin, then you will reduce the dead cells, but you still need to be careful with rubbing those infected spots. Make sure you use warm water, and perhaps an antiseptic soap.

You shouldn't go out into the sun while you're having this issue. With cystic acne, the area that's infected is very susceptible to burns. Having a sunburn on top of cystic acne is nowhere near pleasant! Of course you might have a need to go into the sun, and if that does happen, then you will want to cover the infection using cucumber juice. This will keep them moisturized, and will allow them to remain safe.

If you wish, you can go for a more natural treatment, and it is extremely effective. What you will want to do is wash the face and effected areas of course with a mixture of one teaspoon of buttermilk, honey, as well as turmeric in two parts white gram flour.

This is arguably the best way to get rid of those cysts. It is also the greatest exfoliating agent out there, and it has been mentioned in many beauty magazines. Good luck!

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