Treating Cystic Acne...Continued

Using Isotretonoin - Con't

Therefore, it is important that you should not discontinue taking the medication even when acne has cleared up. In order to reap the full benefits of the treatment, you need to take the drugs for the whole 20 weeks or as per your doctor's advice.

When you are taking this drug, it is imperative that you regularly visit your doctor for check up because Isotretinoin sometimes cause side effects, including lips and/or mouth dryness, headache, depression, muscle pain, chest aches, and fetal deformities if taken by expectant mothers.

Oral Contraceptives For Treating Cystic Acne

Women who are suffering from cystic acne can take oral contraceptives as an alternative medication to such condition. Aside from preventing pregnancy, oral contraceptives also prevent excessive sebum production and can be used longer than other severe acne drugs. However, women with blot-clotting ailment or migraine headaches, and are above 35 years old are not advised to take oral contraceptives without the approval of their gynecologist.

Intralesional Corticosteroid Treatment

Severely inflamed acne cysts are usually directly injected by a diluted form of Interlesional Corticosteroid. With this treatment, acne cysts usually clear up in not more than five days. Aside from fast healing, another benefit from using this drug in treating cystic acne is that it reduces scarring.

In spite of the effectiveness of this drug, however, this is not the treatment preferred by specialists because the diluted-form of Interlesional Corticosteroid only works well with newly grown acne cysts.

Acne Surgery

People with cystic acne should never squeeze or try draining the cysts themselves because this can lead to further infection. If you have a very inflamed and painful acne cyst, you should go to the dermatologist to have it extracted and drained.

Treating cystic acne with acne surgery, also called draining and extraction of acne, is usually done when the growth is very big and does not positively react to other types of treatment. It is important to stress that acne surgery should only be done by dermatologists because they are the only ones who are licensed to perform such procedures.

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