Acne for Dummies Book

	Introduction	1
	About This Book	1
	Conventions Used in This Book	2
	Foolish Assumptions	2
	How This Book Is Organized	3
	Icons Used in This Book	5
	Where to Go from Here	6
Part I	Facing Up to Acne	7
Chapter 1	Dealing with Acne	9
	Acne Explained	9
	Waking up to whiteheads, blackheads, and zits	10
	Taking it on the chin later in life	11
	Creating Your Acne-Treating Program	12
	Meeting the players	13
	Deciding whether to treat yourself	13
Relying on the experts	14
	Avoiding quickie, quacky cures	15
	Recognizing Impostors and Related Conditions	16
Chapter 2	Getting Comfortable with the Skin You're In	17
	Exploring Your Largest Organ	17
	Getting above it all: Hey, your epidermis is showing!	18
	Scratching the surface: Now your dermis is showing!	20
	Digging deeper: Your subcutaneous layer	21
	Basic Operating Instructions: Taking Care of Your Skin	23
	Washing your face	23
	Dealing with dry skin	25
	Coping with an oil glut	25
Chapter 3	Tracing the Evolution of a Pimple	27
	Paying the High Price for Oil	27
	Priming the pump with hormones	29
	Clogging your pores and narrowing the hair canal	30
	Forming blackheads and whiteheads	31
	Battling bacteria	32
	Scarring: Your skin's repair kit	34
	Classifying Acne	35
Part II	Figuring Out Your Acne and How to Tackle It on Your Own	37
Chapter 4	Examining Acne in Teens	39
	Identifying Teenage Acne	39
	Taking a look at teen skin	41
	Exploring teen acne	41
	Tracking acne's footsteps	42
	Understanding the Causes of Teenage Acne	44
	Passing through puberty: Hormones gone wild	44
	Thanking your family: The heredity factor	46
	Acknowledging the Emotional	47
Chapter 5	Addressing Acne in Adults	49
	Identifying Adult-Onset Acne	50
	Describing the symptoms	50
	Taking an emotional toll	52
	Emerging at Any Age	52
	Acne and your menstrual cycle	53
	New baby, new bumps: Acne and pregnancy	54
	You're never too old	59
	Facing Acne As an Adult Man	60
Chapter 6	Evaluating Other Causes and Contributors: Myth and Reality	61
	Debunking Dirt and Grease Theories	62
	Dismissing the Diet - For the Most Part	63
	Frying up an acne fable	63
	Here's the beef - and the milk	64
	No, it's the sweets: A disease of Western civilization?	64
	No, it's the iodides	65
	Salmon saves the day, or does it?	65
	Understanding Stress and Acne	66
	Addressing some Aggravating Agents	66
	Drugs that can induce acne	67
	Initiating or irritating factors?	68
	Making Up and Breaking Out?	70
	Reading the ingredients	71
	Living in an oil-free world	72
Chapter 7	Taking Care of Acne Over the Counter	73
	Taking Action Topically: A Primer	74
	The Lazy Bums! Inactive Ingredients	75
	Getting In on the Active Ingredients	77
	The benefits of benzoyl peroxide	77
	Trying salicylic acid	79
	Other OTC medications	81
	A Word about Acne Soaps, Cleansing Strips, Et Al	83
	Evaluating Advertisers' Claims	84
Part III	Turning to the Pros to Treat Your Type of Acne	85
Chapter 8	Calling in the Experts	87
	Establishing Basic Goals of Treatment	87
	Seeing Your Primary Healthcare Provider	88
	Working together to treat your acne	88
	Requesting a referral to see a specialist	90
	Finding the Right Dermatologist for You	91
	Using networking techniques	92
	Checking in with professional associations	92
	Looking at your insurance directory	93
	Perusing the phone book and advertisements	93
	Going to the Dermatologist for the First Visit	94
	Taking stock of your medical history	94
	Preparing on the day of your visit	95
	Meeting the doc	96
	Launching a Good Working Relationship	97
	Following instructions	97
	Being a "patient" patient	98
	Telephoning the dermatologist with questions	98
	Deciding to change dermatologists	100
Chapter 9	Reviewing the Topical Tools at Your Dermatologist's Disposal	101
	Taking the Topical Route	102
	Opening Up the Tool Chest	103
	Reviewing topical retinoids	103
	Turning to topical antibiotics	108
	Combining benzoyl peroxide with topical antibiotics	109
	Looking at other topicals	112
	Going Generic	113
Chapter 10	Taking the Oral Antibiotic Route	115
	Calling In the Reinforcements	115
	Deciding it's time for oral antibiotics	116
	Addressing some common concerns	116
	Tetracyclines: The First Team	118
	Reviewing warnings, risks, and side effect of tetracyclines	119
	Taking generic ("plain") tetracycline	120
	Taking minocycline	121
	Taking doxycycline	123
	Second-Line Oral Antibiotics	124
	Surveying Strategies to Reduce Antibiotic Use	125
	Your Guides to Your Medications	126
Chapter 11	Hormonal Treatment for Women	129
	Using Oral Contraceptives	130
	Suppressing the cycle - and the acne	131
	Taking the best pills for acne	132
	Looking out for side effects	133
	Trying Anti-androgens	134
Chapter 12	Managing Acne in Dark-Complexioned Skin	137
	Recognizing Diversity	137
	Figuring Out Those Dark Spots!	138
	How dark spots are formed	139
	Deterring the dark spots	140
	Keeping Acne and Dark Spots at Bay with OTC Medications	141
	Benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid	141
	Over-the-counter bleaches	142
	Getting Professional Help	143
	Treating your acne and PIP with topical drugs	144
	Peeling the pigment away	145
	Managing the scars	146
	Oral acne therapy to prevent scars and PIP	147
	Looking at Pomade Acne	147
	Cosmetics for Women of Various Ethnic Groups	148
Chapter 13	Attacking Acne with Accutane and Other Isotretinoins	151
	You Say Accutane, I Say Isotretinoin	152
	Getting to Know the Drug and Its Uses	153
	Preparing for Treatment	154
	Procedures all patients must follow	155
	Additional steps females must take	156
	Knowing What to Expect when You Take Isotretinoin	160
	Taking your pills and observing results	160
	What not to do when you're taking isotretinoin	161
	Sizing up side effects	161
	The risk of depression and suicide	164
Chapter 14	Searching for Weapons of Zit Destruction	167
	You Light Up My Face: Zapping the Zits	167
	Honing in on P. acnes with photodynamic therapy	169
	Looking ahead: Stopping oil at the source and other promising paths	170
	Avoiding ultraviolet light	171
	Taking It from the Top	172
	Experiencing an AHA or BHA peel	174
	Trying out a TCA peel	175
Chapter 15	Seeking Alternative Treatments	177
	Does Alternative Medicine Work?	177
	Exploring Traditional Chinese Medicine	178
	Trying Chinese herbs	178
	Trying acupuncture for acne	180
	Going Natural: Herbs and Supplements Are All around You	180
	Fighting bacteria with botanicals	181
	Reducing inflammation with herbs	181
	Herbs at the cosmetic counter	182
	Finding a professional herbalist	182
	Going natural with minerals and vitamins	183
	Checking Out the Ancient Art of Ayurveda	183
	Taking a Deep Breath: Aromatherapy	184
	Considering Homeopathy	185
	Practicing Mind/Body Medicine	186
	Practicing yoga	187
	Meditation: Contemplating nothing	187
	Biofeedback and cognitive imagery	188
	Hypnosis	188
Part IV	Dealing with Scars and Associated Conditions	189
Chapter 16	Focusing on the Physical Scars	191
	Examining Acne Scars	191
	Pulling in: Scars caused by loss of tissue	192
	Growing out: Collagen running amok	193
	Taking Initial Treatment Steps	194
	Deciding whether you want to do anything about it	194
	Finding a physician	195
	Treating Your Scars	196
	Laser skin resurfacing	197
	Considering other surgical treatment options	199
	Trying out dermabrasion	201
	Vacuuming your skin: Microdermabrasion	202
	Considering emerging technologies	202
Chapter 17	Coping with the Psychological Scars	203
	Facing Acne Can Be Tough - But You Can Do It	204
	Detecting Depression in Yourself and Your Family	205
	Helping Your Child Deal with Acne	206
	Offering your help	207
	Detecting depression in teens	207
	Accutane and depression: Is there a link?	208
	Thinking about Therapy	210
Chapter 18	Reining in Rosacea and Other Acne Look-Alikes	211
	Rosacea 101	212
	Describing those affected	212
	Reporting the signs and symptoms	212
	Addressing additional signs and symptoms	214
	Comparing the appearance to acne	215
	Determining whether it's just rosy cheeks	215
	So, what causes rosacea?	216
	Examining Irritants and Rosacea-Prone Skin	217
	Handling your skin with care!	217
	Making it worse - fact and fiction	219
	Treating Rosacea	221
	Taking a look at the topicals	222
	Treating rosacea by mouth	224
	Managing the Redness	225
	Covering up with camouflage	225
	Buzzing the telangiectasias away	226
	Getting the red out: Light-based therapies	226
	Going the surgical route for rhinophyma	227
	Identifying Rosacea Look-Alikes	227
	Recognizing perioral dermatitis	227
	Being aware of topical steroid-induced "rosacea"	228
Chapter 19	Fighting the Feisty Follicle	229
	Reining in Razor Bumps	229
	Examining the causes	230
	Shaving correctly with PFB	231
	Treating razor bumps on your own	233
	Getting professional help	235
	Dealing with Those Hairs	237
	Removing hairs temporarily	237
	Removing hairs permanently	239
	Slowing down the hairs	240
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