Kinds Of Age Specific
Acne
Identify Your Type of Acne
For the last decades, acne has been affecting people of all
age levels. A published study known as Prevalence of Facial
Acne on Adults stated that the current mean age for acne patients
treated these past ten years range from 20.5 to 26.5 years
old.
In today’s world, acne is no longer considered as puberty-related
disease, it is more like a skin disorder and may be worsened
as severe skin diseases. There has been infants who are born
with acne, but it will soon disappear after a few months of
birth. Though this is true, infants born with this skin disorder
are more prone to acquire acne later on their lives.
Basically, everyone experiences acne at some stages of their
life. There are also no specific factors why people get this
skin disorder. People all-over the world has equal risk of
being affected with this skin disease.
Acne can be categorized into two groups, from the mildest
form that can be treated externally and to the most severe
form, which must be addressed by a dermatologist, often requiring
oral treatments by means of antibiotics.
If you categorized acne by their severity, they can be categorized
into papule, comedo, nodule, pustule, and cyst types.
The simplest and most basic form of acne is a red lesion
or swelling appeared on the surface of the skin due to bacterial
attack on the tissue called comedo. Propionic bacterium or
P. acnes is a bacteria that generally lives on the skin that
may cause the acne occurrence through its production of certain
chemicals and enzymes that will decompose the tissue wall
to penetrate the hair canal.
This action will result swelling, pain and redness that cause
the comedones to form. If the comedo is open, the surface
of the skin tissue will be black due to oil deposits and is
known as blackhead. If the comedo is close, the skin has skin-colored
bumps called whiteheads.
Besides, papules are very small and may give a rough skin
appearance like that of sand paper.
According to different skin conditions, acne is given different
names. Acne vulgaris, which is the most common form of acne,
often appears with whiteheads and blackheads. If acne has
changed form and manifests on middle-age individuals, it is
then known as Acne rosacea.
Acne rosacea does not exist with openings on its pores. Generally,
it only gives rough appearance on the skin surface since there
will be bumpy nods on the forehead, cheeks and chin. It is
hard to get rid of It is very hard to completely cure acne
rosacea and the infected skin and it may leave a bumpy nose
surface, which is called Rhynophyma.
In addition, Acne cystica is the most severe form of this
skin disorder. It will develop deep inflammation that fills
the pus nodes and when the pus bursts, the skin tissue will
be infected rather than the skin surface alone. Severe inflammation
and deep infection may lead to cyst formations that may leave
permanent scars on the skin.
Another form of is Acne fulminance, which is a rare type,
can be categorized by systematic weight loss, fever and other
critical condition. Generally, acne fulminance occurs to boys.
Apart from the above mentioned acne forms, there are still
other types of acne such as Acne infantilis, Acne connglobata
and Acne pustulosa.
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