Saturday, October 24, 2009

The Best Cystic Acne Treatment

By Peter Skonctue

Cystic acne is a more advanced stage of acne. This severe form of acne takes the shape of large and painful boils showing up on the skin of the face. If cystic acne is not treated properly, it can leave painful and ugly scarring on your face.

There are currently researchers that are trying to find the causes of cystic acne, though for the most part the tests link it to an outbreak or surging of hormones within the human body. There are oil glands within your skin which have the potential to turn a bit lively, and this is because of the hormones. The glands will create an excess of oil and sebum.

This causes the swelling of the oil glands under the skin, which then begin to harden instead of secreting the oil into the hair follicle linings on the surface of the skin like they should.

The oil glands are in an inflamed and infected state; they are painful and red. This is the severe form of cystic acne, which shows up as red lesions under the skin.

It's somewhat hard to actually treat cystic acne, though a dermatologist might be able to help you. He or she will tell you to use pharmaceutical drugs such as Isotretinoin, or even antibiotics that will fight your infection.

It may be very tempting to squeeze the cystic acne, to get rid of all the extra infectious matter present in it, as well as get some relief from the pain and pressure. However, this is the most futile thing you can do. Not only are you going to be left with a scar, but you will have this acne condition flaring up into an even more severe form. Squeezed cysts are more painful and they take longer to heal.

The treatment for this will mean that you won't be able to use moisturizers or even heavy makeup, at least not where the infection is. If you use a chemical based makeup, then you'll definitely end up with a serious problem. If you exfoliate the skin, then you will reduce the dead cells, but you still need to be careful with rubbing those infected spots. Make sure you use warm water, and perhaps an antiseptic soap.

You shouldn't go out into the sun while you're having this issue. With cystic acne, the area that's infected is very susceptible to burns. Having a sunburn on top of cystic acne is nowhere near pleasant! Of course you might have a need to go into the sun, and if that does happen, then you will want to cover the infection using cucumber juice. This will keep them moisturized, and will allow them to remain safe.

Natural treatment will likely be your best route. Wash your infected areas with the following mixture of ingredients: one teaspoon of buttermilk, turmeric in two parts white gram flour, and honey.

This is a great way of ridding yourself of the cysts. In addition that it is the best exfoliating agent that you can use, at least among the natural ones.

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