How To Get Rid Of Acne

How can I get rid of acne?

It's difficult to totally get rid of acne. The best thing to say is that we can improve acne, and we can control acne. Acne will often go away spontaneously as your body adjusts to hormones. How can you control acne? We can use a variety of non-prescription medications. I have some in my own range that contains a variety of active anti-acne ingredients, and if you've got early mild acne, you may wish to go to the pharmacist and you may wish to get one of those non prescription acne products or a range of products - an acne cleanser and anti-acnegel,and an anti-acne toner. All of these can help. When the acne becomes more stubborn is when you need to go to your doctor, your dermatologist and get prescription products. The doctor will often start with topical prescription creams that contain a variety of things like benzoyl peroxide, antibiotics topically in gels, retinae or retinae related creams or gels. All of these need to be used in a careful way, otherwise you get too much drying. It's very important that you follow the instructions and the doctor or the dermatologist gives you those instructions. Don't leave the pharmacist until you've got those instructions. If you over use these things you can make your skin worse. The next range would be the oral antibiotic group of drugs. These can often be taken at very low dosage, preferably at night, with food so you minimize risks of things like indigestion, heartburn, sunlight sensitivity because they're cleared out of the body by the next day. These need to be used for several months under physician dermatology supervision. In addition, if the acne is slow to respond or indeed you want the acne to respond more quickly, we also have a group of treatments that my staff do, for example, at the clinic, where we treat with a combination of peels, special visible lights that kill the acne bacteria, microdermabrasion, and extraction of the early acne lesions. Those can be added to the other treatments. When all of that has failed, which is a small group,then we have to think of more powerful medicines which include drugs such as roacutane, which when used and prescribed by a dermatologist correctly is an incredibly useful drug. And in addition, some of the prescription contraceptive pills that actually block the effects of the hormones on the acne glands can be used. So we have a wide range of treatments now for acne, but it's important that you follow the treatment program carefully.