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Acne is a huge problem for numerous teenagers. They find it extremely embarrassing, uncomfortable and a source of mockery from bullies. However, acne is a hormonal difficulty and there is not much you are able to do about it except not encourage it to become any worse by trying to reduce the amount of oil on the affected area.

However, it has been found that the hormonal imbalance may sometimes be corrected in girls if they take the birth control pill. This is not a perfect solution because the long term use of birth control pills can also bring its own concerns with it. The option is not accessible to boys though, so do not even think of it.

It would depend on the birth control pills – what they contain, so you would have to take the advice of a physician after trying the regular remedies for acne. The first thing to try is to tie your hair back so that the oil in your hair does not smear onto your skin. Next, you should change your pillow cases often, very frequently because they will get covered in oil too.

Wear clothes that do not have high collars, because these too will collect oil and dirt and put them back into your skin. If the acne is on your back, wear loose-fitting clothes for the same reason. Wash your face no more than usual – three or four times a day but use plain soap without perfume. Be careful with make-up too. In fact, endeavour not to wear any.

If these basic precautions do not remove your acne, try an over-the-counter (OTC) remedy. OTC remedies vary from antiseptic or / and antibiotic creams and rinses to salycilic acid washes, all of which are safe and intended to remove the excess oil from your skin and kill the bacteria, which together with the oil cause the break-outs.

If you have come this far and nothing has worked, it is worth seeing your GP concerning birth control pills. You would not be taking them for birth control, so he may advise you take a half tablet each two or three days or a quarter tablet a day – just enough to reset your hormonal imbalance, not turn you temporarily infertile.

In fact, doctors have been using birth control pills to help tackle acne for years, but it has been kept quiet for various reasons that anyone may imagine including the charge of encouraging promiscuity.

However, the pill not just reduces female hormones such as progestin and oestrogen, but also the male hormone testosterone, which can be accountable for more acne.

Other birth control pills lower progesterone, which will reduce the androgen hormones, which in turn might reduce the production of excess oil. I have to saying ‘may’ and ‘might’ because only a physician can make a decision which is the best pill for you. Some women react badly to some pills and have to be taken off them entirely or placed on another type.

There are yet other birth control pills that prevent fertility in a completely different manner, by raising the level of testosterone and so they may cause your body to create even more acne and really bad acne may lead to acne scarring and that is the last thing you would like all over your face.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on many subjects, but is at present concerned with salycilic acid acne treatment. If you have an interest in acne, please go over to our website now at Treating Acne Scars