Question

1.)What is acne?  Are there any risk factors or known causes?

2.) What are the symptoms of acne?

3.) What are potential complications or long term impact with someone who has acne?

4.)How is this disease/ condition, illness treated?

Answer 1

1. Acne is known as acne vulgaris biologically, this is the chronic inflammatory disorder of the pilosebaceous gland of skin which is responsible for the oil secretion from the skin through the hair follicles.

Acne occurs commonly at the puberty

Reasons:

Hormonal disturbances, environmental pollution, genetic factors, bacterial proliferation, family history of the patients.

2. Symptoms: there is formation of the inflammatory papules, filled with fluids, if broken it may leave scars on the skin

3. Development of the long term acne is the serious concern in this case

4, treatment of acne can be started by the topical antibiotics preparations like tetracycline, clindamycin, erythromycin, neomycin etc, then may go for retinol therapy if the patient is irresponsive for the conventional therapy, then may go for the Hormonal therapy but under very much supervision