Acne is a condition that affects a large section of the population all over the world and this has been happening for a long time now. It can happen in the teens and it can also happen when a person has moved out of the teens. It is therefore quite likely that you are one of the sufferers of this irritating and disfiguring disorder. What can you do to alleviate this problem? Dermatologists and chemists prescribe many different kinds of creams and drugs, all with their individual benefits and side effects, but today we will concentrate on discussing the Retin-A acne treatment .
Retin-A is a derivative of Vitamin A
and is the most commonly used treatment for tackling comedonal acne
. Comedones
are non-inflammatory skin blemishes which appear on the
face or the body in areas that contain large quantities
of sebaceous glands, such as the face, neck or hair and
also the back and shoulders. Comedones appear in
basically two forms - as a whitehead or a blackhead.
Whiteheads form when the trapped sebum and bacteria are
located below the surface of the skin. They are very
small and may even be invisible to the naked eye.
Blackheads, on the other hand, are more visible as they
occur when the sebum, containing the skin pigment
melanin, oxidizes and turns a black or brown
color. What is Retin-A
Treatment?
Retin-A
is the most favored treatment for whiteheads and
blackheads. The way it works is by increasing the
turnover of skin cells thus ensuring that the plugged
matter in the follicle is slowly squeezed out. However,
the problem with Retin-A acne treatment is that
the increase in the skin cell turnover will almost
definitely cause flaking and irritation and this is why
many people stop using Retin-A after a while because
they reckon that it is not working. Retin-A acne
treatment also often does not work because it cannot
challenge all the causes of acne
such as increased sebum
activity, the presence of toxins in the body and
stress.
If
we have to project the factual position, we must tell
you about the drawbacks of Retin-A acne
treatment also. Apart from the temporary irritation
and the redness caused by flaking which we mentioned
above, it has been found to be unsuitable for women who
are pregnant or nursing. And then of
course, we have heard from several people that Retin-A
has proved ineffective as far as they are
concerned.Drawbacks of Retin-A
Treatment
Since Retin-A acne treatment could give rise to problems relating to side effects, our suggestion to you would be to try out the holistic treatment for fighting acne . The difference between the holistic form of treatment and the usual medical procedures is that while the latter deals with the short-term effect (targeting basically the symptoms), the holistic approach tries to get to the root of the problem. It sets right your internal condition that causes acne in the first place by a judicious mixture of repairing both the mind and the body. It tackles the underlying root causes of all diseases, including acne, and is the only way that you can cure your disease permanently.
