Acne (acne) – a skin of an inflammatory nature, damage to the sebaceous glands and excretory ducts with the participation of hair follicles. There are: ordinary (youthful or vulgar), medication, red and other types of acne.
Ordinary acne is a complication of seborrhea with a change in the chemical composition of the skin, a decrease in the number of lower fatty acids, which have disinfectant properties. A consequence of this – favorable conditions are created for the spread of staphylococci and bacteria in the sebaceous glands.
Treatment prescribed by a dermatologist is carried out on an outpatient basis, using antibiotics and vitamins. For external treatment, disinfectants are used, washed with hot water and soap, wiped with burgundy alcohol. Ordinary acne is cured, but there may remain scars.
For prevention, they carefully take care of the skin of the face, treat seborrhea, diet, and use sunbathing in the summer and bathing in the sea. For example, tours to the Dead Sea are very popular. Climate there and special mud masks have an anti -aging effect, including on the skin.
Red acne affecting facial skin is common among women from 30 years and older. The development of the disease occurs against the background of vascular and neuro-vegetative lability, and there may be intestinal disorders, endocrine system. Possible exacerbation due to neuropsychic stress, non-compliance with the diet and personal hygiene, solar radiation, overheating and hypothermia.
Treat this type of acne tetracycline, nicotinic acid, and anti -a -row preparations. For external use, suspensions with ichthyol or gray, various ointments, cryomassage are used. Diet excludes sweet, spicy and alcohol.
Drug acne is rashes in the form of acne that arose in the form of an inflammatory reaction to the use of medications, mainly based on iodine or bromine, as well as due to prolonged treatment with glucocorticoid drugs.
For the treatment of medications, the drugs that caused the rashes are primarily canceled. It is necessary to carry out disinfection therapy, as in the treatment of ordinary acne.
Professional acne is formed due to the prolonged effect on the skin of products from oil products, processing of coal or other substances. The listed substances irritate the skin, and develops the inflammatory process due to infection. The skin most susceptible to pollution becomes dry, dirty gray, with the development of numerous follicular traffic jams and acne-like nodules.
To treat professional acne eliminate contact with the active substance to the skin, prescribe vitamins, ascorbic acid, disinfectant ointments and warm baths.