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Unlike the belief that acne happens to teenagers alone, it can hit you at any age from 10 to 40. In fact whether or not you have experience acne in your teenage, you could be hit by it during your late twenties. Women in their mid twenties are more prone to getting adult acne. It usually happens in areas with oil glands. For e.g. face, chest and back. However, if you do not have a history of acne, it is likely to pass off with time.

Sometimes acne cases can become very severe. The cysts become large and highly inflamed in these cases. It is best to consult a dermatologist or health care professional for the treatment of severe acne. Sometimes this treatment may have to go on from time as long as several years. One may have to try out different treatments before finding the kind of treatment that suits the skin type and works to remove the acne. While nobody has been able to explain the cause of acne with conviction, some schools of thought believe that these are triggered by the hormonal changes that take place inside the human body during different stages of life. Some other causes could also include a stressful lifestyle or a poor dietary pattern. In all these cases the body starts producing excess sebum oil and thus leads to the formation of zits.

When a case of severe acne goes to a dermatologist or a health care professional for consultation you will notice that more often than not oral antibiotics are the first prescription. Oral antibiotics bring about results in the form of reduced redness and inflammation. They attack the major acne causing bacteria, called P. acne Bacteria. You will also notice that usually a high dosage of antibiotics to start off the treatment and with the passage of time, as there is improvement in condition, the dosage is reduced. The only negative aspects of this treatment are that the treatment takes some amount of time and in certain cases the bacteria becomes resistant to the antibiotic and results may not come about at all.

Big pimples are the worst of all. They are swollen and red. They are extremely painful, and look horribly ugly. To make matters worse these kind of pimples have a habit of appearing at the most uncalled for times. These are technically called cystic pimples by professionals. Ideally, a pimple should heal by itself in a time span of three days or at least it should start healing in that time. If it doesn’t it is best to check with a dermatologist and visit him if required.

Medicinal treatment on pimples can prove to be very effective, especially when it comes to moderate and severe acne. Dermatologists prescribe two kinds of medicine for acne treatment. These could be oral medicines like tablets and capsules or topical medicines like ointments and anti-acne creams. While the topical application medicine contains more or less the ingredients as would a home made remedy, these ingredients are only found in concentrated forms in the medicine. Oral medicines on the other hand comprise of antibiotics in the league of tetracycline, which can sometimes have side effects. Tetracycline is known to impact bone formation negatively and therefore is never prescribed to expectant mothers and growing children.

Carol is dermatologist turned writer. She is presently on sabbatical to write her book on how to get rid of acne.