Recognizing Acne (Acne) and Prevention Tips

Acne .... zit appears again, so not confident in front of ya friends ... Maybe you are more particularly the young are often faced with acne problems that make resentful and often lost the confidence to make public appearances. We should recognize what is acne and intricacies that we can treat and avoid them.

Acne (acne vulgaris) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the oil glands (sebaceous glands), which generally occurs in adolescence and can heal itself. Clinical features of acne are varied, ranging from blackheads (can be white or black), papules (red), pustules (prominent and there is inflammation), node (stand out more than 0.5 cm), up scar tissue hipotrofik (concave) / hypertrophic (such as keloids) that results from such active disorder.

Incidence Causes Acne

Androgen hormones have an important role in acne. These hormones become active, and many in their teens, before menstruation, and during pregnancy. This hormone can increase the production of sebum (oil).

In addition, many other factors that may cause the occurrence of acne, including:

* Eating fatty foods,
* Use of cosmetics / moisturizers that contain oils,
* Rarely cleaned the dirty & oily face,
* Smoking,
* Stress,
* Lack of sleep (rest),
* Weather and air that is too hot.

The occurrence of the process of Acne

A. Hiperkeratinisasi follicular. Oil glands in the skin we have a channel associated with the outside world. These channels are covered by the follicle. But sometimes the follicles is thickened and difficult to be separated so that the sebum (oil) produced by the glands become blocked.
2. Increased production of sebum. It is influenced by the hormone androgen.
3. Colonization of Propionibacterium acnes (the bacteria that cause acne). These bacteria are anaerobic work (not requiring oxygen). Therefore, under anaerobic conditions due to follicular hiperkeratinisasi, over time the number of bacteria becomes more and more.
4. Inflammation. Sebum is food for Propionibacterium acnes. Sebum is broken down into free fatty acids. Free fatty acids are broken down and eventually more and more because this is not something that normally happens, then the body is considered as a foreign body and there was an immune reaction (chemotactic) and inflammation.

The result of inflammation that occurs in our skin we can see from the outside as the appearance of pimples that are red, painful, long containing pus (pus), which are often broken.
How to Prevent Acne emergence?

Once we know the definition, types, and the cause of acne would feel incomplete if you do not know how to prevent it. The easiest way to prevent acne is to avoid or do the opposite of those things on the cause of acne. Here are some tips for reluctant bertandang acne on our faces again:

* Use a special cleaning lotion or soap specifically for acne prone skin.
* Always keep the skin clean face, hands, and the dressing. So also with the cleanliness of the hair, especially if your hair is long and the bangs, because oil and dirt on the hair can be attached to the skin of the face that can eventually lead to excessive sebum production and acne.
* Choose cosmetics that are soluble in water, avoid cosmetics that contain oil.
* Avoid eating fatty foods.
* Avoid smoking.
* Sleep (rest) is sufficient.
* Avoid stress.
* Eating a healthy and balanced.
* Eat fruit to help remove toxins from the body.
* Drinking water (at least 8 glasses a day) to cleanse the kidneys and liver and remove toxins from the inside, so the skin becomes healthy, clean and bright.
* Exercise regularly.

Acne goodbye ...