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Erizu
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Wash your face religiously, especially when your face feels oily. i still wash my face 5x a day even though its been years since i had some. change your bedding and pilow casses weekly or even every 3 days. germs and dust from pillows increases pimples.
you dont need super special media peddled medicine, just 1 good bar of soap, though having 1 dont hurt but only 1 , changing medications will only cause an allergy and more pimples. reduce SOME OILY foods but not all, it will only reduce your quality of life if your misserable on your diet, and missery causes more pimples. their is an etire culture of what to eat or not to eat, sometimes it works , but who knows. JUST LIVE YOUR LIFE NORMALLY WITH LITTLE CONCERN FOR YOUR ACNE. bad news however acne will not go away until your finnished with puberty. for me it was 2 years long, it destroyed my face, so DO NOT KILL YOUR PIMPLES OUT OF ANGER. about the holes on your face after 4 years it will become smooth again with the help of some peelings.
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Berky
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WWW.ACNEZINE.COM and Neutrogena pore refining cleanser with AHA's!! LOTS of water and the less packaged foods the better! (refined stuff) think natural and unprocessed.... fruit, veg, meat, wholemeal...
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Fir3ry_f3mal3
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take a supplement Zinc...it drys up the spots also use oxy products they work wonders
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Stacey B
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Try clear.now It stops the breakout before it starts. You can find it at sblandino.qhealthbeauty.com
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Jason G
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Acne is one of those things that some people get, others don't (lucky them!). It is caused by hair follicles getting blocked then inflamed. There are some hardcore treatments for severe cases that can be prescribed, but if you have mild to moderate acne, you are best to keep things simple: cleanse you face a couple of times a day (this is to reduce the spread of the bacteria that causes the inflammation) also don't leave makeup on overnight (if you wear it) and avoid touching or poking the spots (you will just inflame them and spread the bacteria - you could also cause scarring). As for what to eat? IT DOES NOT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE!!! You could take a look at this blog has some good info on acne: http://outlawacne.com
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peaceful_shmn
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The below post is actual a repost from an earlier response (to save me time!), but it's still accurate. Acne is not the problem; it's the symptom of a problem. Solve the REAL problem, and acne disapears. Your doctor WILL NOT tell you the real cause, because they've only been trained to deal with symptoms. Read and solve your problems. (NOTE: This method can sometimes take up to 3 months for good results, but it's the ONLY way to solve the problem. Good health over pills; The pills will kill you eventually, anyway. Protect your liver and do yourself a favor!)
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If you would like to proceed from acne to much more serious health problems and die at the age of "bald-and-fat-40", continue to do everything you have been. If you would like to completely cure your acne problem and live a healthy, long life... then read the following and do more research:
1: Acne is NOT caused by bacteria or a bacterial infection. Here's a list of causative cause-and-effect:
- You eat a pizza; No fruit, no raw vegetables, and you drink soda.
- This digests (very, very slowly...) and constipates you, but during digestion releases acidic ash content; What's left after digestion.
- You are unable to absorb nutrients efficiently because of constipation, and now your body finds the acids (normally as strong as car-battery acids) and creates a mucus lining on the intestines and some organs to keep them from getting damaged.
- Your body releases Calcium from the blood, body tissues, ligaments, bones, teeth, and fluids to neutralize and carry out that acid. (Ionized Calcium has plenty of room to spare for detoxification of harmless acidic waste.) Along with this Calcium is a plethora of vital minerals and serum-alkaline fluid levels which could have been used to protect the cells themselves from damage. Meanwhile, that mucus back in your digestive tract is hardening into a plastic-paste.
- Your body is already using vital detoxification organs (liver, kidneys, gallbladder, etc) to rid itself of specific ingested and absorbed threats, and this overheated, overprocessed, over salted, meat-laden, dairy-contaminated rotting food is the last on its list to be run through and sifted... So evacuation begins. While your liver and kidneys and blood vessels carry the worst of the load, which flows around waiting for its turn to be kicked out, your body takes it a step further and evacuates what it can through the SKIN and LUNGS. Heard of sweating? Try getting an acne sufferer to do heavy cardio 30 minutes after eating something very high in sugar. It comes to the top faster with sweat.
- What goes through the lungs CAN cause lung problems, if there's no control over the diet and this continues to happen. Asthma is one thing that can develop. If you're an acne sufferer, though, guess what your body finds most useful for evac-detox. ; ) When acidic waste (primarilly) reaches the skin, your skin goes from being a balanced, 7.x pH environment to an over-acidic hell hole.
- The bacteria blamed for acne swoop in; for they thrive in this specific pH level and environment. They make their way to hairs first, as it's an easy way in, and because you're excreting acidic waste through sebum, which DOES reach the surface.
- So, these little guys cultivate in a pull of your own acidic oils, and make their way down to the inner layers of your epidermis. You don't have acne yet, bud; Just an oily face.
- These bacteria grow and grow and grow in number, and your body notices. Your body sees this as a huge problem, because if the bacteria spreads enough, it can pose a threat to the entire body's health... not just the face (or neck or back or chest; etc).
- And... here's what you'll never, ever hear a doctor telling you:
Your body gives you acne; Not the bacteria.
Your antibodies hustle in and cause a big swelling, and there you have it! If the fluids can escape, you have what appears to be a clogged pore. Pores can appear clogged for many reasons, but only very rarely for the reasons of " " " dirt " " ". If the fluids cannot escape, or the infection is deep, then you get those lovely puss pockets of gratuitous love we all call "pimples" or "zits".
So... Your body is telling you something. Acne is not the problem; It's the sign. It's the symptom OF a problem.
Here are some steps to getting rid of your acne (or at least quieting the battle):
1: Shop primarilly in the produce sections of your market or eatery. A minimum of 90% of your diet should be fresh and RAW fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and grains. The rest should be decided by you as either a type of meat or legumes; or if you'de rather neither of them be in your diet, more fruit or vegetable content.
2: Drink as much water as you can stomach, but drink it in sips and swallows and NOT glugs. Drinking too much at a time can overload the kidneys, so make it a goal to finish X-amount by the end of the day. Also, water should not be had 10 minutes before a meal or until 10 minutes after, as it dilutes the stomach's acids. Otherwise, you're all clear.
3: Stop drinking sodas (artificial sugar is no excuse), all carbonated beverages, alcohols on any list of ingredients, pasteurized fruit or vegetable juices, etc. Water, FRESHLY MADE juices, freshly made herbal teas, and... water are all fine to drink at almost any time.
4: Stop eating anything from a diner of any sort (There is little room for excuse here; One being "It's a 'raw-food' diner!" I just don't think many of you weak individuals will be able to handle a real-life diet. ; )
5: If it has added sugar, corn syrups, or any sweetener other than Stevia or low-glycemic substances like Agave nectar, don't buy or eat it.
6: If it has hydrogenated ANYTHING in it, any kind of coloring agent (that isn't a plant pigment), or anything that generalizes without specification (ie: 'spices', 'artificial flavor', 'natural flavor', etc), don't eat it.
7: Make sure that every meal contains a green plant food or at least a red or purple fruit. Eat more bananas, raisins, plums, dates, etc for your sweet tooth, and eat more avocados and healthy, cold pressed oils (olive oil, coconut oil, etc) for your fats. You may obtain a very good source of dietary fat from certain fish; canned or fresh.
8: Don't e at more than one serving of animal flesh per day. (Until, that is, your acne has partially cleared. You've reached the stage of detox after that to where your body may be able to handle detoxification of heavy red meats and dairy again. . . BUT-->)
9: Don't eat dairy or anything that has a dairy product or derivitive in it... unless it's from a human's breast. Quite simply put, if you're drinking (eating...) milk, your mind hasn't progressed beyond the intellectual level of a small child. You're dependent on that milk.
10: Last but not least, take, eat, drink, stuff up your butt, inject into your arm, sniff up your nose NO DRUGS; MEDICAL OR OTHERWISE. These make acne worse, 99% of the time. If it's an Acne-Helping-Happy-Miracle-Drug, do realize that it's also a drug that has been proven by science and testimony to destroy such things as liver tissue, kidney tissue, intestinal tissue, blood vessel tissue... brain tissue... Catch what I'm saying? Now, what do you depend on the most to keep acne from getting bad? Why, your detoxification routes! (such as the liver, kidneys, blood...)
Before I decide to stop typing, I'll add one more positive note:
Isolated sugar has been proven to be 3 times more chemically addictive in our bodies than an allowance of Nicotine alone, so good luck in quitting, you weak bastards. : P
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Amanda D
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Well I've found nothing you ingest will work. I even tried to drink nothing but water for 3 months. Nothing happened to my skin but I lost about 8 lbs. :) Try not to use hairgels because they get on your pillow and onto your face at night if you don't wash your hair before you go to bed. Don't touch the pimples for any reason during the day. But mostly prescription medications are the only things that really work at all. Retin-A and Sodium Sulfacedamide.
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gaia_fanatic
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From MY understanding (experience) we have genetic tendancies towards certain things, and acne is usually hereditary. It is also hormonal, as with teens. I also know that acne is a huge problem in places like england, USA and most 1st world countries.
What bring it out? well, air quality, water quality, stress, and of course, certain foods. Particularly dairy products. See for yourself:
http://www.acnehelp.org.uk/dairy.htm
I've been in correspondence with Dr F.W. Danby, a Canadian dermatologist practising in the U.S. and he thinks that dairy products are the major triggering factor. Recently (Feb 2005) he published a study in the prestigious medical journal Dermatology, which confirms the dairy/acne link.
Summary:
Dr Danby used a study of what nurses ate called the Nurses Health Study II. He thinks that the hormones in milk cause the problem, by overstimulating the human oil producing glands:
"But how could milk cause acne? Because drinking milk and consuming dairy products from pregnant cows exposes us to the hormones produced by the cows’pregnancy, hormones that we were not designed to consume during our teenage and adult years. It is no secret that teenagers’acne closely parallels hormonal activity..."
(from the Commentary) Download
"In conclusion, we found that intake of milk was associated with increased risk of teenage acne in girls. This finding suggests that the hormonal constituents of milk are present in sufficient quantities to have biologic effects in girls, and raises the possibility that other hormonally sensitive glands may also be affected. Because of the potential importance for acne and possibly breast cancer, these relationships should be evaluated further."
(From the Research Paper) Download
My comments:
These are excellent analyses of the problem. Note that they are both written in scientific language, and only talks about girls because the information came from females, I will step in for Dr D, and say that this obviously applies to males as well. Don't be misled by the call for further research, that's the scientific paper's way of saying "Ta Ta for now!".
One line summary: GIVE UP MILK AND OTHER DAIRY PRODUCTS!
NOTE: As one fellow sufferer Riss pointed out, you do need to ensure you are getting enough Calcium, either from a Calcium tablet, or your diet. Don't just stop dairy products, get a good book about non-dairy diets to help you. Leslie Kenton is a useful author, but there are plenty of others.
Acne and Dairy Products
by F.W. Danby, MD, FRCPC
By way of introduction, I am a dermatologist. After training in Toronto, I practised in Canada for 24 years and then moved to the United States. My credentials include my Canadian specialist certificate, my American specialty 'boards', a few scientific papers, the conduct of 23 clinical trials (several of them on acne medications), well over 2000 personal cases of acne treated with Isotretinoin, 23 years as Chair of a division of dermatology and teaching medical students in a Canadian university and now two years teaching about acne at an American medical school.
I have had an active interest in the interaction of hormones and the skin and when I saw David Collins's web site I sent him along a copy of a presentation that I've been developing and presenting intermittently to various groups of dermatologists and other doctors for over ten years. David asked me for a summary in layman's language, and so here it is.
Basically, almost all dermatologists agree that hormones are the driving force behind acne. Everybody pretty much agrees that the male hormone 5 alpha dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is the final molecule that turns on the oil making cells, even in women. The problem is that there are multiple sources of hormones that turn into DHT - some of them are accepted by almost all dermatologists and some are not, at least yet.
Generally, the male hormones that come from the testicles and from the ovaries and from the adrenal (stress) glands are accepted, but there is another source that has been investigated incompletely but that clinically appears quite important.
The story goes back to the mid 1960s when Dr. Jerome K. Fisher, a dermatologist in Pasadena, California, collected dietary histories on over 1000 consecutive acne patients. He found acne to be related to the amount of milk consumed and was able to compare his patients to a much larger group of 5227 teenagers whose diets were studied in New York City. The acne patients in Pasadena consumed 50 to 300% more milk than the teenagers in NewYork.
Other scientists, working in Wisconsin USA, Germany, and Scotland (Edinburgh and Glasgow) showed in the early 1970s that milk contains Progesterone; that is a product of the cows' pregnancy; and that there are other hormones in the milk of pregnant cows, particularly in the butterfat fraction. Also, it was shown that the enzymes necessary to convert these hormones to DHT are present right in the oil glands themselves.
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GEORGE
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i said this many timesss
LEMONNN JUICEEE EVERY NIGHT !!! GIVE ME 10 POINTS U GET RID OF ACNE
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Cupcake
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From my understand and experience, food does not affect acne. My niece uses that Proactive product advertised on TV by Jessica Simpson and she says it really does work. DON'T ever pick at your acne; you'll scar. You might try cleaning your face with alcohol after washing with a good soap, like Neutrogena for acne prone skin. My son used Accutane and his cleared up and he's had no problem since. I think Accutane has been taken off the market since. Hope that helps.
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cacrivos2000
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Try Loma Lux Homeopathic Medicine, Acne Pill, it is fantastic. No side affects and works really fast. I have tried all those mentioned here including Proactive with little or no success. Accutaine worked buy costly and side affects.
You can get it on Amazon or ebay. I can now go without it after using it for a few months and still stay fairly clear.
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danakani
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Try a detoxification tea. It gets all of the bad stuff out of your liver and kidneys and skin. Those organs tend to hold gunk and that's not good for your body.
Also, part of ance is the oil. If your skin is oily, you need to remove it without drying out your skin which overwashing can do. dry Skin with acne is not a good combo either. Clean and clear has these oil absorbing sheets that lift the oil, keeping your make-up in place if your'e a girl. You can use these as many times a day as you want. (They're really cool actually)
the tanning salon helps to dry them out faster too. I go once a week..
As a over the counter solution, there is a soap called brevoxyl 10%. That works REALLY well, use it religously and you'll start to see results in a week. Last year, my back started breaking out really bad. I was disgusted! First my face, now my BACK?? I came across the brevoxyl bar by accident, used it on my back. I started using it on my face as well.
So: (1) Go tanning, (2) Drink detoxifying tea (3) Wash 2x a day with brevoxyl 10% soap (4) When oily, remove the oil between washs with Clean and Clear oil blotting sheets!
Best of luck
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