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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 | |
Title: Acne for Dummies Manufacturer: WileyWiley Item Number: 9780471746980 Publication Date: January 2006 Number: 1 Product Description: Acne for Dummies Universal Product Code (UPC): 9780471746980 WonderClub Stock Keeping Unit (WSKU): 9780471746980 Rating: 4/5 based on 2 Reviews Image Location: https://wonderclub.com/images/covers/69/80/9780471746980.jpg Weight: 0.200 kg (0.44 lbs) Width: 6.000 cm (2.36 inches) Heigh : 9.100 cm (3.58 inches) Depth: 0.800 cm (0.31 inches) Date Added: August 25, 2020, Added By: Ross Date Last Edited: August 25, 2020, Edited By: Ross
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