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Acne Treatment Guide: How To Treat Mild Acne? |
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Acne attacks you in military like precision!
Second Lieutenant, Lieutenant and Captain! The attacks of acne are
styled as mild, moderate and severe. All are unwelcome promotions!
When
you have the attack, treat it properly at the first stage itself, in the
manner it should be treated. You will save lots of complications. If you
allow it to pass through the second stage and reach the third stage, it
is a certain invitation to scars. No scar ever looks great on the face!
So prevention is better than cure. Well said, but acne is such a
type of happening, you can't prevent it. But when it does happen, you
can treat it in a proper manner.
Self treatment, if you are sure
about medication, is good. But to consult your doctor is better, as he
is the right person, to recognize what type of acne is yours. He has the
better eyes and judgments for the possible consequences of this attack.
Mild
attack of acne means, arrival of whiteheads and blackheads on your face.
Begin your treatment by over the counter medications consisting of
benzoyl peroxide or salicylic acid. Before using these medications, wash
your face, the acne-prone area with a supportive cleanser and lukewarm
water. Do the washing exercise, just twice a day, not more. Don't try to
overreach the surface of the skin. It will be overreaction and the
side-effects would do more damage to your skin. The healing process will
be reversed. If you use soap, choose the mild one.
Patience and
caution are two watchwords in the treatment of mild acne. You are new to
the acne and so are your acne to the medication with which you confront
it. It will take its time to understand and accept it. Don't you be
alarmed, if you get dryness, redness or peeling. Persist with oil-free
moisturizer, to tackle peeling.
Two months, is the normal time required to treat mild acne. If it
is not controlled by then, do meet the dermatologist for further
guidance. He is the right person to put you on the alternative course.
If in the meantime, acne disappears, don't give up medications
that brought success to you, immediately. Continue with the treatment
for a couple of weeks more, so that the problem is rooted out, and
lesions are not formed.
When you find this mild attack is not
responding to the line of treatment adopted by you in good faith, the
purpose of consulting the dermatologist is simple. On the merits of your
case, he may take recourse to one or more, or combination of two
therapies. Generally such medications may mean a prescription topical
antimicrobial or topical retinoid.
These deliver proven results.
Lastly,
a bold assurance to all acne sufferers. Today, we have treatment for
every type of acne. The factors that cause acne are many and they vary
from individual to individual So, the treatment depends upon certain
fixed factors and certain variable factors like skin type and age. Meet
your dermatologist and let him decide medication for you.
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