Treatment of Acne Scar on Body
Acne scar on the body are generally more difficult to treat than scars on your face. Reason is because there are more blood vessels supply blood to your face than elsewhere on the rest of the body. Hence, wound on the face then to heal faster and better than those on the body.
Also, there are fewer pilo-sebaceous glands on non-facial skin and they are thicker. It is the migration of cells from the pilo-sebaceous glands that heals injury. Therefore the fewer these units, the longer it takes to heal the wound.
Fortunately there are some treatments for body acne scars that are effective and they are carry out by either the dermatologists or aestheticians. For body scars that are red, pulse-dye laser or other vascular lasers can be used to remove the red component. If the scars are brown, then the more aggressive lightening agents can be used. And for depressed body scar, filler can be used to fill up the uneven surface.
There are many options available to treat acne scars. For less serious scars, you can actually them alone, over time, the condition will improve and the scars become less noticeable, blending into the rest of your face.
For more serious and noticeable scar, we’d recommend that you work with a cosmetically oriented dermatologists or plastic surgeon to correct the situation. This will help you greatly in your appearance and also build up your self-esteem.
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Acne Treatment With Oral Antibiotics
Oral antibiotics work by removing the p.acne bacteria and decreasing inflammation. However there is a big challenge today in using modern antibiotic - that is, over-prescription of antibiotic. The result is a growing resistance to these drugs which means that diseases that once could have been wiped out with a course of antibiotics may now have dire potential.
We are not suggesting not to use antibiotics. In fact, they should be used as long as they are prescribed for the right reason. For example, antibiotic should be used on patients with moderate to severe acne. Two of antibiotic that we feel are safe and effective are doxycycline and minocycline. They are easily absorbed form of tetracycline which has been used for decades to reduce acne inflammation. Tetracycline has very few side effects however there is an emerging resistance to this drug.
Another effective antibiotic for patient with moderate to severe acne is erythromyclin. Unfortunately it has been overly prescribed which resulted in 50 percent of the people are resistance to it. Still erythromycin and eteracycline are very useful because of their anti-inflammatory potential.
Other oral antibiotics include sulfa drugs such as Bactrim and Septra. They are effective orally but can cause worrisome reactions such as skin allergies and bone marrow suppression.
Clindamycin taken orally has been use for over forty years and is a second-line antibiotic, prescribed when the tetracyclines or erythromycin medications fail. The most significant, though rare adverse reaction associated with clindamycin is pseudomembranous colitis, which is a bloody diarrhea that required treatment by a gastroenterologist.
When prescribing antibiotics to patient, it is important that the dermatologist set a timetable to its use. The average course of antibiotic treatment is about one to six months.
After the end of the course, the dermatologist should schedule an appointment with the patient to assess the acne condition. If the condition improves and there is no side effect, the treatment is to be continued until the skin is clear. Usually topical medication is to be used concurrently and some time
Differin or Retin-A is prescribed to aid in further improvement or addresses other problem such as post-inflammatory pigmentation.
A second appointment is to be arranged with the patient after six to either weeks into the treatment. If the acne condition improves, then the dermatologist is likely to lower to stop the oral antibiotic dose and just continue with the topical treatment.
There is no miracle antibiotic cure for acne. Just like you don’t get acne over night, neither will it goes away over night. Sometime if the condition does not improve with the use of one type of antibiotic, another type may have to be prescribed.
For female patients, they can use birth control pills and spironolactone (Aldactone) for acne treatment. However if the condition does not improve and the acne is severe enough and likely to create scar, then the dermatologist may even issue Accutane as the next remedies. In our opinion, it is better to have five months of Accutane treatment than months or years on antibiotic that does not help in solving the acne problem.
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Isotertinion (Accutane) Treatment For Acne
Isotretinoin is actually the generic term for Accutane. It is a synthetic Vitamin A derivative that creates a potentially long lasting change in the cells, lining the pore. This change allows cells to slough off naturally with clumping and plugging the pore.
Using Accutane, the pores will not become plugged and hence oil can flow freely to the skin surface. Also the amount of oil is reduced as Accutane temporarily re-regulates the oil gland to produce less. And the beauty of using Accutane is that, the benefit is long lasting and in some cases, the benefits are permanent.
Accutane is the most important drug today in the arsenal of medications that are used to treat severe and persistent nodular, cystic acne. It has provided great improvement to the acne problem for majority of the patient who use it since 1984. And about 60% of those who used Accutane actually needed only one- course of treatment and 30% needed two- course of treatment for clear skin.
Although Accutane is a powerful medication, it also has its side effect. It can cause your skin to be overly dry and chapped your lips. Hence when taking Accutane, you need to monitor your condition.
Accutane also has other side effects including nose bleeds and muscle and joint soreness. However the good news is that majority of the patients who use Accutane do not suffer from these side effects.
Accutane is known to cause birth defects in a developing fetus if a pregnant woman takes it. Therefore women who are sexually active must use appropriate birth control measure for one month before using Accutane. They must also continue with the control measure throughout the entire course and for at least three months after the therapy stops. However, accutane does not affect future pregnancies.
Serious side effects from Accutane are liver and pancreas damage, depression and brain swelling. Fortunately such cases are rare and can be reversed when one stopped using the medication.
If you have severe acne and do not respond well to other treatments, you may seriously want to consider taking Accutane for a five to six month period. The prescription is to be tailored according to your height and weight and should be taken with a meal because Accutane is absorbed better with food.
When taking Accutane, you must monitor the situation for any side effects as mentioned above. You are required to take mandatory blood tests including:
- living profile studies,
- complete blood count and
- cholesterol and triglyceride levels
The purpose of these tests is to ensure that there aren’t any abnormalities such as liver inflammation and a dangerously high triglyceride level which could inflame the pancreas, decrease the white blood count or seriously lower the red blood cell count. And for fertile women, a serum pregnancy test is to be done every month.
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