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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Acne Preventions Tips - Tips to Get the Most Out of Acne Antibiotics


Your local doctor or dermatologist will always prescribed the topical acne antibiotic (solution, lotions and gels) along with instructions in it, for examples; how often you should apply the topical acne antibiotics to your skin, which part of the skin you should apply it, for how long it needs going to be, and so on and so on. To get the most of the treatment you need to follow the instructions carefully.

Topical acne antibiotics work more than just to reduce the visible pimples, topical acne antibiotics also work to prevent the new one to form. Therefore it is advisable to apply the topical acne antibiotics not just to the acne spot but also to apply it thinly to the entire skins that are affected by the acne for once or maybe twice within a day.

Oral Acne antibiotics usually being prescribed if there are large areas being infected by acne. Because oral acne antibiotics can work faster and work more effective than topical acne antibiotics.

To achieve the maximum result, oral acne antibiotics should be taken regularly.

If your local doctor prescribed you with Tetracycline or Doxycycline, you should have taken extra precautions not to face sunlight directly, since both doxycycline and tetracycline can increase your skin sensitivity to sunburn.

When taking oral acne antibiotics, a few numbers of people may have experience allergy, thrush, nausea and diarrhea.

Your local pharmacist can provide you with some practical tips about oral acne antibiotics such as when the best time you can take the capsules or tablets, whether you should take them with food or without food. the pharmacist might even have a hint for you to remember to take your medication.

In some cases, your local doctor might prescribed you, acne antibiotics combine with other acne treatment, or maybe the combination of topical acne antibiotics with oral acne antibiotics in order to improve the effectiveness and also to help protect against the resistance of the antibiotics.

There is a main concern with all antibiotics in general that they have to be used properly and not over-used. This goes the same with the acne antibiotics that you should follow the instructions that your local doctor gave you when he or she prescribed the antibiotics. Failure to do so will result the bacteria become resistant to the antibiotics, therefore making the acne treatment ineffective.

If you follow the instructions properly acne antibiotics are usually very effective, however if for some reason you do not see any improvements in your acne after 8-12 weeks, go back and talk to your local doctor again.


Acne Preventions Tips

Friday, June 6, 2008

Acne Solution with Antibiotics

Acne Antibiotics usually being used to treat inflammation in acne. For example; in small cases such as bumps or pink lumps or in serious cases, to treat such as cysts or nodules.

For more than ten years Acne Antibiotics have been used to control the outbreak of acne, however these days Acne antibiotics are used more often for short treatment only, usually the treatments length only three to six months.

How The Acne Antibiotics Work

In acne treatment, Acne Antibiotics are the solution to control the infections from bacteria, as these infections contribute the forming of acne.

Acne Antibiotics are also the solution to treat the acne inflammation; therefore it can reduce the uncomfortable pain, redness and swelling.

Types of Acne Antibiotics

There are two types of antibiotics for acne; the first one is topical acne antibiotics, the other one is the oral acne antibiotics.

Topical Acne Antibiotic are in the form of gels or lotions and they can be applied onto the skin directly. For examples of this topical acne antibiotics are Dalacin, Clindatec and Eryacne. Those acne antibiotics might contain active ingredients such as erythromycin or clindamycin.

When you use the topical

acne antibiotics, you might avoid the side effects that can occur when you use the oral acne antibiotics. Unfortunately, the topical acne antibiotics usually takes a longer time to become effective.

To minimize the irritation, you should use the topical acne antibiotics sparingly on a cool and dry skin.

Oral Acne Antibiotics are in the form of tablets or capsules that you can just swallow. Examples of this Oral Acne Antibiotics are Tetracycline products such as Tetrex, Achromycin, Doxycycline products such as Doryx, Vibratabs, Doxy and Minocycline product such as Minomycin, Akamin.

You usually are being prescribed the Oral Acne Antibiotics by your doctor when you have a large area of acne. Compare to topical acne antibiotics, oral acne antibiotics are working much faster and much more effective. Unfortunately there might be sides effect occurs.

There are wide ranges of acne antibiotics available in the market today, for both topical acne antibiotics and oral acne antibiotics. Please consult you health acne specialist (pharmacist, local doctor and dermatologist) to find the product that suits you.

It sometimes needs more than one treatment to cure the acne. If one antibiotic treatment can not cure your acne, your health acne specialist need to prescribed you to a different acne antibiotic, perhaps the more aggressive and more effective acne antibiotics.

However, it needs a trial for as long as four and up to six week to find out whether the acne treatment is working well or not. Acne antibiotics medications are very helpful most of the time. It is very rare that it can cause a significant side effect.