i don't break out often, but when i do it's cystic acne and it takes forever to go away. and it always flares up around my period (so it means it's my hormones). i'm going to the dermatologist soon to get some antibiotics but in the mean time what can i do to help it.
i'm keeping my face clean and applying benzol peroxide to the area. but it's big and painful. what can i do to reduce the inflammation?
thanks :)
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Really bad acne is INTERNALLY caused. No topical stuff will help.
Maybe your regular doctor will prescribe the powerful antibiotic
tetracycline or something newer. You have to stop it sooner
because those hard lumps may never come out without the
painful dermaabrasion (sandpaper to you).
Generic tetracycline should be cheap; been around for 50 years.
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NATURAL ACNE PROTOCOL
1/ Never, ever touch your face.
2/ Use 3 facecloths to wash your face, one to soap on, one to soap off with very hot water, one to rinse off with ice cold water, in that order, once a day.
3/ If you are under 18 take 5,000 IU of vitamin A once a day with a full meal
4/ If you are over 18 take 5,000 IU of vitamin A twice a day with a full meal.
Do not get pregnant while taking vitamin A. Do not take any more, like Accutane, it will stop you growing.
5/ Never, ever. pick, squeeze or pop your spot. Read number 1 again.
6/ Do this for 90 days.
7/ Invest in a brand new pillow and 2 new or more pillow cases to �double bag' your pillow. HOT wash every couple of days.
Source:
A bit of advice given to me as a teenager, a bit of science as I am studying allergic reactions and vitamin A is a part of that. A bit of research: I sat in a lecture at the back and watched the acne prone pick at their faces, those with the worse acne touched their faces 32 times in an hour, the clearest complexions didn't touch their faces even once. I have circumstantial evidence that acne is the result of dermatophyte transfer from hands to face...where it does not get washed off and is well fed by hormones, sweat a
nd oil...just a hypothesis... But it would explain why vitamin A is so effective as vitamin causes skin to remove dermatophytes.
The secret is never to touch the spots
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