For severe acne, it takes several months of combined treatment with external drugs and oral drugs to completely eliminate it.
What treatment measures does acne generally have?
Healthy diet: eat less high-sugar diet and dairy products, such as French fries, bread, whole milk and so on. Eat more yogurt, vegetables, fruits and coarse grains.
Good living habits: avoid staying up late and living irregularly, avoid exposure, and pay attention to personal hygiene.
Cleansing the skin: choose clean water or suitable cleaning products to keep the skin clean. If you need makeup, choose cosmetics that won't clog pores or oil-free cosmetics, and be sure to remove makeup in time.
Psychological counseling: acne will affect patients' social interaction and study, resulting in different degrees of psychological pressure. Excessive psychological pressure will lead to more serious acne. In the treatment of acne, psychological counseling and mental health education can not only help patients reduce their psychological pressure, but also alleviate their illness.
What medicine does acne have?
External drug therapy
Generally, acne patients can only use external drugs. For patients with poor efficacy of topical drugs or moderate to severe acne, it is necessary to adopt a combination of topical drugs and oral drugs. These drug treatments must be carried out under the guidance of a doctor.
Commonly used drugs for external use include the following categories:
Vitamin a acid
kind
Tretinoin for external use is the first choice for mild to moderate acne.
The main functions of these drugs are to regulate the differentiation of epidermal keratinocytes, improve the keratinization of sebaceous ducts in hair follicles and dissolve micro-acne.
It also has the effects of controlling pigmentation after acne inflammation and improving acne scar.
The combination of tretinoin drugs with anti-inflammatory and antibacterial drugs can increase the skin permeability of related drugs.
Topical tretinoin drugs often have mild skin irritation reactions such as local erythema, desquamation, tightness and burning sensation, but they can gradually disappear with the extension of use time.
benzoyl peroxide
Peroxide can slowly release new ecological oxygen and benzoic acid after external use, which has the functions of killing Propionibacterium acne, dissolving acne and astringing, and can be used as one of the first choice external antibacterial drugs for inflammatory acne.
antibiotic
Including erythromycin.
, clindamycin
Fusidic acid cream
Wait a minute. Because topical antibiotics are easy to induce drug resistance of Propionibacterium acnes, it is not recommended to use them alone, but to use them in combination with benzoyl peroxide or topical retinoids.
nonane diacid
It can reduce the flora of skin surface, hair follicle and sebaceous gland, especially inhibit propionibacterium acne and dissolve acne. It is effective for different types of acne and can be made into 15%~20% cream for external use. The adverse reactions were local mild erythema and tingling.
Systematic drug therapy
Systemic therapy is generally used for patients with moderate or severe acne or patients with ineffective topical drugs. Some systemic drugs can cause fetal malformation.
Therefore, pregnant women should avoid systematic treatment, and systematic treatment should take medicine under the guidance of a doctor. Commonly used systemic drugs are as follows:
antibiotic
Systematic treatment is the first choice for patients with moderate and severe acne. But antibiotics are easy to cause propionibacterium acnes and propionibacterium non-acnes.