Posts Tagged ‘Female Hormones’
“Have Acne? Best Medication Is Clean Hygiene” – Really?
I recently read an article with the title “Have Acne? Best Medication Is Clean Hygiene.” This made me wonder how many other people think acne is a hygiene problem. Probably a great many, I concluded. Why else do people sometimes scrub their faces raw to try and get rid of it?
The truth is, acne is not related to hygiene. Although it is important to wash your face once or twice a day if you have acne, it has nothing to do with dirt.
The problem has more to do with the accumulation of sebum, the substance secreted from sebaceous glands of the skin. The plain English definition would be oils secreted by the skin. And yes, this material does need to be controlled, preferably with regular, gentle cleansing of the skin. It has nothing to do with a lack of cleanliness.
Acne and Pregnancy - Some Useful Tips
Acne and pregnancy got linked with each other. Acne during pregnancy is quite common, whether pregnant woman previously had such problem or not. Acne during pregnancy is very common noticed particularly in first trimester during which, the levels of female hormones are increased. Progesterone is the hormone, which is more androgenic (male hormone-like) than estrogen and can give rise to the secretions of the skin glands to increase that in turn, ends up in occurring acne. After the first trimester, progesterone is formed by the placenta rather than the ovaries, so acne generally gets cleared up.
Disturbance in hormonal levels, stress, anxiety and several physical changes – all this gradually turns into the inflammation and skin eruptions in the form of acne. As luck would have it, acne tends to disappear as the pregnancy advances, and if the woman has had struggled with acne before her pregnancy, then her skin might look better in her 2nd and final as compared to before.
