Apple Cider Vinegar on Pimples – An Effective Treatment?
September 28, 2007
Apple Cider Vinegar is a home remedy for a number of ailments. It has been around for decades. Not only does apple cider work on pimples but it also helps combat other common ailments. Read more
Advanced Colloidal Silver Acne Treatment
September 28, 2007
Advanced Colloidal Silver is a new acne treatment which differs considerably from the standard colloidal silver products that came before it. Colloidal silver is generally high in ions or have gel bases with solutions of silver nitrate. The majority of colloidal silver products consist primarily of ionic silver. These have fewer silver particles, and these ingredients are a minimum of 10 nanometers but can be as big as 500 nanometers or more. Read more
Adderall and Stratterra – Effects on Hormones and Acne
September 28, 2007
Adderall and Strattera are amphetamines prescribed to children and teens suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD.)
Not only have the two medicines caused, or perhaps caused, other medical problems that include death, they both wreak havoc on healthy skin. Acne is often the result for those who are prescribed either Strattera or Adderall for their ADHD. When the drug is discontinued the acne has been seen to clear up. Read more
Acne Treatments by Oprah
September 28, 2007
As part of Oprah Magazine’s only health forum she and her publication have established a line of acne fighting treatments called Acne Treatments by Oprah. One that she highly recommended is referred to as "hope in the jar". This skin cream was originally designed as a prescription skin cream to be used primarily by medical care doctors. It became known the world over for its effectiveness, no small thanks to Oprah. Read more
Accutane Side Effects
September 28, 2007
Accutane is a powerful drug that is used to combat serious acne, primarily in teens. Because of its serious and lengthy list of side effects, accutane is generally used as a last resort only when nothing else has worked to cure the acne.
The most serious of the accutane side effects is that it can cause birth defects that are severe, such as malformed babies and mental retardation. Other common side effects of accutane are conjunctivitis, better known as pink eye; skin that becomes fragile and dry, cracked or dry lips, dry mouth, pain in your joints, a dry nose, excessive itching, and nosebleeds.
Other accutane side effects that are less common but very annoying are pain in the bowels and even some inflammation; chest pain, inability to tolerate your contact lenses, a decrease in your night vision, wounds that heal more slowly, fatigue, depression, nausea and vomiting, headaches, a rash, stomach or intestinal upset, skin that is sensitive to sunburn, peeling on the palms of your hands or the soles of your feet, thinning of your hair, and urinary discomfort.
Your acne could actually get worse before it gets better when you first start accutane treatment.
It is extremely important that you do not get pregnant when you are taking accutane. Your baby will have a high risk of having birth defects if you do so. No doctor will prescribe accutane to a woman who does not sign a statement that she has been on effective birth control for at least a month and will stay on it for at least a month after the accutane treatment ends. So serious are the problems and the side effects for the baby that a woman must have a negative pregnancy test within two weeks of starting accutane treatment and will begin the regimen on the second or third day of her menstrual period.
Blood sugar may be hard to regulate while you are on accutane. Some of the accutane side effects may be exacerbated if you’re taking tetracycline at the same time.
You cannot donate blood while you are on accutane and for one month after you end the treatment.
Accuzene Acne Vitamins (aka – Acuzine)
August 21, 2007
Acuzine is a natural vitamin for fighting acne. Unlike creams used to resolve acne problems Acuzine is herbal and can fight all levels of acne from mild to severe. All Acuzine ingredients are natural and it’s safe and works very quickly. What’s more, unlike a lot of “health food” product, Acuzine won’t break your bank.
Acuzine is made up of antioxidants that help destroy harmful free radicals, which can bring on infections. Acuzine naturally and effectively treats inflammation and rids your face of spots, zits, puss, blackheads and whiteheads. It also reduces your facial redness. No one has ever reported a side effect from the use of Acuzine vitamins to fight acne. It can be used by adults and teenagers. Not only do the vitamins fight acne, they also reduce facial wrinkles and improve your skin tone. Within two or three months virtually one hundred percent of acne sufferers that use Acuzine acne vitamins reported success.
The active ingredients in Acuzine acne vitamins are Vitamin E; Dimethylaminoethanol Bitartrate, better known as DMAE; alpha lipoic acid, also known as thioctic acid; Ascorbyl Palmitate, which is better known as L-Ascorbic Acid; the leaf of the aloe vera plant; hydrolyzed collagen; bioprene, also known as piper nigrm; and Ubidecarenone Co-Enzyme Q10.
Vitamin E, the most prevalent of the active natural Acuzine ingredients, is a powerful antioxidant. It helps fight free radicals that try to attack your skin cells and can damage the skin as well as contribute to the onslaught of cancer and heart disease. Vitamin E also gives Vitamin C a boost in its effort to protect our bodies against virus-driven illness.
Thioctic acid is an antioxidant as well and can travel easily throughout your body because it is both water and fat soluble. It is highly effective in thwarting the inflammatory affect of certain forms of acne and reducing its redness when irritated. Scars can be prevented and even reversed with the use of this natural acid. ALA, the shortened name for Thioctic or Alpha Lipoic Acid, helps your body recycle the antioxidants produced by ingestion of Vitamin C and Vitamin E. As a result these vitamins are even more effective against acne and other illness. Along with fighting acne, ALA gives your body more energy and can even ward off HIV to some extent.
Zeno Acne Device Clinical Reviews
August 21, 2007
Zeno is a battery powered treatment for individual pimples. The device works as heat therapy to reduce or remove pimples that have become inflamed by mild or moderate acne. Zeno is not intended to combat your widespread acne. What you do is place the medical device directly on the pimple for two and a half minutes. The best time to attack that pimple with your Zeno device is when it first appears. You should never use Zeno on cystic acne, however. Read more
Clearing up Acne With Anitbotics
August 21, 2007
Antibiotics can and do often clear up acne, although you can often resolve the acne problem with topical over the counter products. If this doesn’t work, or if your acne becomes inflamed you should see a physician about a treatment of antibiotics. There are three important processes that antibiotics cause in your skin to help resolve your acne problem.
The most important effect that antibiotics have on your acne is to reduce the follicle bacteria that cause it. Antibiotics also reduce the chemicals that white blood cells produce that act as a skin irritant. Antibiotics will also reduce your skin’s free fatty acid concentration, which helps reduce inflammation.
Tetracycline and its derivatives is the most prescribed acne-fighting antibiotic. But you must not take it if there is any chance you are pregnant, or if you are nursing your baby. Generally a doctor will start you off with a twice daily dose of 500 milligrams and then cut that in half when your acne is noticeably improved. Tetracyclines must be taken on an empty stomach, which can be a hardship for a teenager. For many, then, tetracycline is not the best choice for fighting acne.
Erythromycin fights inflammation more effectively than does tetracycline, and it can be taken with food. In fact, that’s recommended as it can cause nausea or an upset stomach. Generally you’ll take 250 to 500 milligrams twice each day.
If you have pustules your doctor may prescribe minocycline twice a day in dosages of 50 to 100 mg. Its side effects are nausea, dizziness, change in skin pigmentation, vomiting, and discoloration of teen. The tooth and skin coloration issues are primarily seen with patients who have been taking it for a very lengthy time period, however.
Doxycycline can be prescribed safely if you don’t respond to erythromycin or tetracycline or can’t take one or the other. You’ll usually take it twice a day in a dosage of 50 to 100 mg. You must take it with food or you’ll be nauseated. The caution with this acne antibiotic, however, is that you sensitivity to sun will increase and you’ll have to be careful not to suffer sunburn.
Clindamycin is an acne antibiotic that can be either topical or ingested. Most doctors will prescribe a topical clindamycin cream. This antibiotic can cause pseudo membranous colitis, a severe infection of the intestine.
