What is acne?

Are you disturbed with the acne marks on your face and very eagerly want to know what is acne? Don't worry, like you many young boys and girls, especially teenagers are bearing the trauma of acne. They try different options to get rid of it. Sometimes they follow the advertisements on TV and rush to the shop to buy an acne control cream. After using these for a few days, they again start their new journey with a different acne protection product. This time may be they are influenced by the advertisements given in a reputed newspaper or in a magazine. The source may be anything. The main thing is to understand the reason why you are prone to acne again and again whereas you are trying almost all options you can.

Some people mark acne as a cause of eating fast food dishes or any rich meal. You may also heard such things from your elders. But the truth says a little else thing. After research scientists have come to the conclusion that during your teenage you go through different changes in your body. At this time androgens create a great effect on you. Either you are a male or a female sex, you possess an increase level of androgen. Your face gets an extra oil and this is sebum. Androgen is the male sex hormone and due to its effect sebum is produced. When your face fills with an excess amount of oil, the oil gland gets some obstacle and at the end blocks. Now you discover some marks on your face which is very well known as acne.

However there are many causes which work behind the attack of an acne. Doctors say that little careful measures can help you to prevent acne. The other factors of acne are such as---

1. Stress and tension

2. Not staying neat and clean.

3. Inadequate diet, etc.

4. Effects of acne on your body

By the way, acne can affect you at any part of your body. If you are thinking that only your face is vulnerable to acne, you will be wrong. There are many parts of your body which get an acne. All these parts are affected for poor hygiene too. But it is your face which gets it much in comparison. The areas are---

Face ,Chest, Neck, Upper arms, Shoulders, Back

Your legs generally have less chance to get affected by acne. You may find people with acne go through the condition of pigmentation and scarring. They experience dark spot, red spot, and discolored mark on their skin. These marks remain even when they are not getting acne on their skin. Gradually these marks dissolve.

Types of acne

Usually there are two kinds of acne -- non-inflammatory and inflammatory. Most people suffer from non-inflammatory type of acne. This kind of acne is cured easily. After getting medicines from market, you can remove these types of acne. These appear in form of blackheads or whiteheads on your face.

The problem occurs in case of inflammatory acne. When your whitehead gets affected and reed colors of pimples appear, you face difficulties. The more horrible side of this kind of acne is that after inflammation the acne gets changed into cysts. Slowly it turns into scars on your face, neck or on back. In such cases you need to contact your doctor and take the medicines properly. Sometimes if the acne becomes severe, you may have to undergo with some surgeries. Your doctor will help you during this situation.

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