cure adult acne -
female adult acne
Cure Adult Acne and Female adult
acne
So your teenage years are
behind you but you are still getting pimples. Or maybe you are
getting break outs for the first time and you’re in your
mid-thirties or forties. Who said life was fair? I’m over forty
myself and I still get the odd breakout even though I took
Accutane many years ago.
Research shows that adult acne
has a greater negative effect on quality of life than teen acne
does. It’s doubly embarrassing since none of your friends has
pimples and they might still subscribe to the myth that bad
hygiene causes acne. So, frustrated, you plug “adult acne
cure” or “acne adult female” into an internet search engine and
you come across a million adult acne skin care products that
promise to clear your skin but, through trial and error (and
lots of money) you find that none of them really
works.
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Why is that? One reason is
that topical medications that show some success on teenagers’ oily
skin just irritates drier adult skin and make your pimples
worse. The good news is that you can cure adult acne.
Let’s take a look at what causes adult acne in the first
place.
All pimples have the same
basic cause: the hair follicles on your
face, neck, back and shoulders shed dead skin cells improperly
which clogs the pores and blocks sebum from leaving the
follicles. The sebum backs up, swells the area and gets
infected by bacteria. The important point here is that dead
skin cells “slough off” in clumpy sheets instead of one at a
time. This is caused by androgen hormones. So any adult
acne cure has to treat this hormone imbalance to be effective.
Your adult acne is not caused by dirty skin so special
cleansers can’t cure adult acne. Now that we know the
specific cause of adult acne (and all acne) we can pin point a
few contributing factors:
Cure Adult
Acne: Hormone
fluctuations
This is why teenagers
usually get pimples as puberty causes hormones to go
haywire which increases sebum production and also increase
the keratin produced in the hair follicle. It’s a one-two
punch. In adult acne, particularly female adult acne, hormones
fluctuate with the menstrual cycle (once a month break outs)
and also during pregnancy and menopause.
Cure Adult
Acne: Stopping Birth Control
Pills (men stay with me!)
Female adult acne can be kept
at bay by birth control pills that have a regulating effect on
hormones. Take away the pills and the effect is gone. What may
appear to be a new condition was really always there but was
being “treated” by the birth control
pills.
Cure Adult
Acne: Other Medications
Sometimes adult acne is
triggered by medicines that you might be taking to treat other
conditions. These include anticonvulsants, corticosteroids, and
sobriety drugs. Female adult acne can be triggered by birth
control pills that contain progestins but not estrogen. If you
think that your acne is made worse as a side effect of other
medication, don’t stop taking the medication until you talk to
your doctor!
Cure Adult
Acne: Heredity
Your genes play a big
role in acne because your hormonal activity might be inherited.
If you have other close relatives who struggle with acne,
chances are that it’s in your genes. That doesn’t mean that you
should give up, however. Just because your genes make it worse,
or explain why you are predisposed has nothing to do with
whether you will respond to an adult acne cure.
Cure Adult
Acne: Stress
Guess what? Remember how I told you that
pimples were caused by androgen hormones? One of your body’s
responses to stress is to produce more androgen hormones. For
years dermatologists insisted that stress didn’t trigger acne
but now that stress is better understood, they accept the
connection. Stress is a huge factor in female adult acne
especially for women in fast-paced, challenging careers. Also,
since pimples can cause stress in the first place, a vicious
cycle occurs where one pimple can lead to
more! (MORE…)
