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Preventing Acne - Acne cures ?

We certainly do not know the cause of acne rosacea, and we only have a partial understanding of acne vulgaris.

With acne vulgaris the only sure fire cure is to never grow up!, staying at eight years old and avoiding puberty is about the only way to miss out on the hormone changes that contributes to around 80% of teenagers contacting the vulgaris variety of acne.

Unfortunately teenagers cannot have it both ways if girls want to have breasts and boys want broad shoulders and a hairy chest then the physical changes are accompanied with acne for well over three quarters of all people in their teens or early twenties.

However, we know that in some people various factors may aggravate or contribute to outbreaks. Here are some things you can do to try and prevent acne:

Preventing Acne Tips:

The following measures have allowed many people to reduce their symptoms.

• Avoid consuming foods and beverages that contribute to the dilation of blood vessels: coffee, alcohol, hot drinks, spicy foods and other food or drink that causes redness.
• Avoid exposure to extreme temperatures and violent winds including protecting the face from cold and wind during winter.
• Intense exercise tends to trigger symptoms. If it is too hot you can suck ice to prevent reddening of the face.
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• Learning to relax to better manage the stress and excitement has proved to often be helpful.
• Avoid cigarette smoking, because nicotine deteriorates vascular functions.
• Avoid saunas and hot baths, avoid as much as possible exposure to the sun, apply a good sunscreen SPF 15 or higher, against UVA and UVB, and both summer and winter.
• Except medical advice, avoid prolonged application of cortisone to the face. The cortisone causes a thinning of the skin and a dilation of blood vessels.

Prolonged exposure to sunlight or tanning lamps. UVA rays cause dilation of blood vessels which, after some time, may become permanent. The heat also has an adverse effect, by dilating blood vessels; it accentuates the effect of radiation.

A sudden change in temperature or exposure to extreme climatic conditions or the consumption of hot drinks spicy foods or alcohol and hormonal fluctuations at any age especially during pregnancy and menopause can heighten the effects of vulgaris or rosacea.

The use of cortisone whether used in pills or in an ointment causes dilation of blood vessels and the thinning of the skin; radiotherapy increases body temperature as well as dilation of blood vessels.

As the causes of rosacea remain unknown it is impossible to prevent its appearance. We do have some knowledge of measures to prevent worsening of symptoms and reduce the intensity.

The first step is to seek out what is aggravating the symptoms and then learn how to better manage or avoid these triggers. Keeping a diary of symptoms can be very useful to pinpoint after what events, such as eating certain foods does the condition deteriorate.