Will One Acne Treatment Work For Everyone?

First of all, let me answer the question: will one acne treatment work for everyone? The answer is a big NO.  Because we all have different skin types, the treatment for acne should be focused on eliminating its causes. Additionally, there are several factors that should be taken into consideration when treating for acne. If you want to know more, you have to read this article and discover how to treat acne through its root cause.

Acne can appear on the skin as a congested pore (comedones), whitehead, blackhead, pimple, pustule, or cysts (deep pimple, boils). These blemishes occur wherever there are many oil (sebaceous) glands, mainly on the face, chest, and back.  This is why most people living with acne have oily skin but that does not mean that people with dry skin can not have acne. The severity of acne also plays an important role in the effective treatment. Mild Acne, where the lesions are mainly non-inflammatory with very few inflammatory lesions and usually less than ten in number, can be treated with topical retinoid. Moderate Acne, which is can be a few or many pustules but no significant scarring, is usually treated with oral antibiotics and retinoid. And Severe Acne characterized by many painful and inflammatory nodules all over the body, resulting to acne scarring can be treated by the use of a combination of topical and oral antimicrobial agents.

Your skin may be oily, dry or somewhere in between. The approach in treating acne for oily skin is different for dry skin. People with oily skin should find a treatment that reduces excessive sebum that the skin produces. On the other hand, the use of acne treatment for oily skin is not recommended for people with dry skin because the skin can further dry out. You will be able to either more accurately choose an acne treatment product or make the appropriate lifestyle changes to clear up your skin based on your skin type.

Your age and life stage should also be considered in treating acne, you may not even be able to use the same treatment at various points in your life. The acne treatment for adult is different from that of adolescents because the latter has the influx of androgens or sex hormones that leads sebaceous glands to produce more sebum than usual. On the contrary, adults may have a decreased or ceased hormone production which causes the skin to become dry. Adolescents will need a treatment that is able to handle this excess oil on skin aided with improving the immune system to fight off infection while adults will need an acne treatment that does not causes the skin to further dry out.

Two other considerations in treating acne are diet and possible drug reaction. The lack of a healthy ratio of vegetables and alkalizing foods in any diet will lead to an over acidic and an immune system that is less than optimal, consequently leading to increased build-ups of bacteria and a higher susceptibility to infection and illness. Furthermore, medications such as anti-inflammatory drugs can significantly weaken the immune system.

So again, there is no single acne treatment product for all. All these factors should be noted to effectively treat acne