Acne Remedies
Here are some home remedies and natural treatments for acne.
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Tea Tree Oil
Tea tree oil is a popular home remedy for acne. It is an essential oil that is diluted and applied topically to acne lesions.
How is tea tree oil believed to work? Tea tree oil contains a constituent called terpinen-4-ol that's thought to be responsible for most of tea tree oil's anti-bacterial activity. Because tea tree oil can kill bacteria,...
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Home remedies and natural treatments for acne
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Acne-Treatment
TreatmentAcne treatments work by reducing oil production, speeding up skin cell turnover, fighting bacterial infection or doing all three. With most prescription acne treatments, you may not see results for four to eight weeks, and your skin may get worse before it gets better. Oral prescription medications for acne should not be used during pregnancy, especially during the first trimester.
Your doctor or dermatologist may recommend...
Acne-Risk factors
Hormonal changes in your body can provoke or aggravate acne. Such changes are common in:
Teenagers, both boys and girls
Women and girls, two to seven days before their periods
Pregnant women
People using certain medications, including cortisone
Other risk factors include:
Exposing your skin directly to greasy or oily substances, or to certain cosmetics.
Having a family history of acne. If your parents had acne, you may...
ACNE-Myth Breaker
Myth:Washing your face more often will help clear up acne
Reality:Facial blemishes are not caused by dirt. Contrary to what you may have seen in commercials, pores do not get blocked from the top down due to "impurities". Rather, the walls of a pore stick together within the skin, starting acne formation. Far from preventing acne, frequent washing may actually irritate pores and cause them to become clogged. A washcloth...
Non-inflammatory acne
Microcomedones become non-inflamed skin blemishes called comedones--either a whitehead or a blackhead:
WhiteheadWhen the trapped sebum and bacteria stay below the skin surface, a whitehead is formed. Whiteheads may show up as tiny white spots, or they may be so small that they are invisible to the naked eye.
BlackheadA blackhead occurs...
Acne-a normal follicle
A normal follicle looks like this:
For reasons no one completely understands, follicles, often called pores, sometimes get blocked. Sebum (oil) which normally drains to the surface gets blocked and bacteria begins to grow. Both whiteheads and blackheads start out as a microcomedone. The picture below is a microcomedone...
Primary Pulmonary Hypertension-Treatment
What therapy is available for patients with primary pulmonary hypertension?
Doctors can choose from a variety of drugs that help lower blood pressure in the lungs and improve heart performance in many patients.
Physicians now know that patients with PPH respond differently to the different medications that dilate or relax blood vessels and that no one drug is consistently effective in all patients.
Because individual reactions...
Primary Pulmonary Hypertension-causes & symptoms
What causes primary pulmonary hypertension?
We don't know the cause; there may be one or more causes.
The low incidence makes learning more about the disease extremely difficult.
Studies of PPH also have been difficult because a good animal model of the disease hasn't been available.
We think that in most people who develop primary pulmonary hypertension, the blood vessels are very sensitive to certain factors that trigger...
Primary or Unexplained Pulmonary Hypertension
AHA Recommendation
There is extremely wide variability in the severity of pulmonary hypertension among various patients.
Evaluating, accurately diagnosing and treating the condition is also very complex.
For these reasons, patients with symptoms that suggest pulmonary hypertension require thorough evaluation at a medical center with expertise and experience in pulmonary hypertension.
What is primary pulmonary hypertension...
