Therapy

Effective attack from all sides
The bad news is that acne can not be healed. The Good: The treatment success are enormous, the disease is at the end, hardly a trace to be seen. And the sooner you begin treatment, the greater the chance that your skin does not aggravate the pimples and leave no scars. However, one thing you need: Patience! For the effect of many medications is often not visible immediately.

At the commencement of treatment, the skin can only worsen once. In most cases the treatment lasts for at least 12 weeks. So you do not need to despair or to provide the knowledge of your dermatologist in question. For its arsenal to combat acne is great. He may prescribe different drugs and therapies that intervene at different points of pathogenesis:

Sebaceous
Thus, the sebaceous glands become clogged can no longer needs to be disposed of surplus fat. If your acne, then, is not as bad, often you only need a gentle cleaning and disinfection - for example, with mild detergents, gels or creams and facial tissues, which absorb the excess fat.

Cornification
You can remove your blackheads from a medically trained esthetician. Or put them on your own body - such as with a peeling. This solves the cork into the sebaceous glands. Have you ever inflamed pimples, you'd better keep away from a peeling. Instead, you resort to creams with retinoids, for example, that vitamin A acid. Also free the outputs of the sebaceous glands and prevent re-clogging.

Treatment with vitamin A acid, however, you must be patient: the effect is often visible only after three weeks, the skin can also sensitive to light, red and scaly, be.

Bacteria
Prescription antibiotics such as tetracyclines and macrolides in tablet or cream form to inhibit the growth of acne bacteria. They are often used for more serious infections of the skin. However, there is always the danger of antibiotics that the bacteria become resistant. Therefore, the therapy can be combined with a drug called benzoyl peroxide. For this combat the drug-resistant bacteria. Also, the active ingredient azelaic acid bacteria moves the body, dissolve calluses and works against inflammation.

Scars
Against the effects of acne you can do something with fruit acid peels, grinding operations, laser or cold treatments, steroid or silicone patches to refine the skin's appearance. Deep scars, although not entirely disappear, the skin looks again, but much smoother.

Help from the inside
In a very severe acne, the dermatologist even tougher guns ascend. Then he prescribes tablets with isotretinoin, a derivative of vitamin A acid. This drug has revolutionized the treatment of acne administered: The pill, it dissolves from the inside, not only comedones, the sebaceous glands regress during treatment. Actually, the perfect drug - were it not for side effects such as chapped lips, nose bleeds and liver damage. And women who want to have a child, under no circumstances allowed to take isotretinoin: The substance can cause serious harm to the embryo.

Help for Women
Often women get pimples, because they have too much androgen, ie male sex hormones. Then the gynecologist can help by prescribing the pill. For works not only contraceptive. It also lowers the androgen levels - with pure skin as beautiful side effect.