Alternative acne treatments – a review
The high percentage of people suffering from acne worldwide has led to an increase
in the number of treatment alternatives available.
The classic antibiotics and creams have been supplemented by hormonal treatments,
phototherapy and laser surgery.
Others are trying to develop still more types of cures, such as diets built to avoid the consumption of dairy products,
the use of chromium and zinc supplements and home made cures from various sorts of spices.
Many of them haven’t been scientifically proven yet.
Laser surgery is the latest technique developed by doctors to reduce the scars left behind by acne.
Doctors use laser beams to burn out scar tissue, which allows the skin to generate new, healthy tissue instead.
This technique is still in the early, primitive stages since it is used after follicles had turned to pimples and pimples
were reduced to scars.
New research shows that laser surgery could be used in the future to prevent acne from even happening,
instead of just dealing with the consequences.
Medical grade lasers may soon be used to burn away the follicle sac where the hair grows
or to burn the sebaceous gland in those parts of the skin that are subject to repeated acne outbreaks.
Another approach being studied is to use the laser
to induce the formation of oxygen in the bacteria in order to kill them.
However, at this time, laser is still too dangerous for acne prevention
since the extreme heat is known to cause long-term dryness of the skin and even spots.
Other research efforts focus on whole-genome DNA sequencing as a tool for
identifying the genetic reasons
why some people do not suffer from acne or develop only light forms of this condition.
However, gene sequencing is still one of those techniques that belong to the
future and are unlikely to become available soon.
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