Can Birth Control Pills Be A Cure For Acne?
Posted by Owen Jones in Uncategorized, tags: acne, advice, alternative medicine, beauty, birth control, cosmetics, diet, how to, nutrition, other, pregnancy, self help, skin, skin care, UncategorizedAcne is a huge problem for many teenagers. They find it highly embarrassing, painful and a source of ridicule from bullies. However, acne is a hormonal problem and there is not much you are able to do about it except not encourage it to become any worse by attempting to reduce the amount of oil on the affected area.
However, it has been discovered that the hormonal imbalance may sometimes be righted in girls if they take the birth control pill. This is not an ideal solution because the long term use of birth control pills may also bring its own concerns with it. The option is not available to boys though, so do not even think of it.
It would depend on the birth control pills - what they contain, so you would have to seek the advice of a GP after testing the normal remedies for acne. The first thing to attempt is to tie your hair back so that the oil in your hair does not get onto your skin. Next, you should replace your pillow cases often, very often because they will get covered in oil too.
Wear garments that do not have high collars, because these too will collect oil and dirt and rub them back into your skin. If the acne is on your back, wear loose-fitting clothing for the same reason. Wash your face no more than normal - three or four times a day but use natural soap without scent. Be careful with make-up too. In fact, attempt not to wear any.
If these basic precautions do not remove your acne, try an over-the-counter (OTC) remedy. OTC remedies vary from antiseptic or / and antibiotic creams and rinses to salycilic acid washes, all of which are safe and intended to remove the excess oil from your skin and kill the bacteria, which together with the oil cause the break-outs.
If you have come this far and nothing has worked, it is worth seeing your medical doctor concerning birth control pills. You would not be taking them for birth control, so he may tell you take a half tablet each two or three days or a quarter tablet a day - just enough to reset your hormonal imbalance, not make you temporarily infertile.
In fact, doctors have been using birth control pills to help tackle acne for years, but it has been kept quiet for various reasons that anyone may imagine including the charge of encouraging promiscuity.
However, the pill not just reduces female hormones such as progestin and oestrogen, but also the male hormone testosterone, which can be responsible for more acne.
Other birth control pills lower progesterone, which will reduce the androgen hormones, which in turn might reduce the production of excess oil. I have to saying ‘may’ and ‘might’ because only a physician can make a decision which is the best pill for you. Some women react badly to some pills and have to be taken off them entirely or placed on another type.
There are yet other birth control pills that prevent fertility in a completely different manner, by raising the level of testosterone and so they may cause your body to create even more acne and really bad acne may lead to acne scarring and that is the last thing you would like all over your face.
Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on many subjects, but is at present involved with salycilic acid acne treatment. If you have an interest in acne, please go over to our web site now at Treating Acne Scars
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