Acne is a disorder of inflammation of hair follicles and sebaceous glands. It affects teenagers and adults as well. Acne breakouts can occur anywhere in your body but they more common in face, neck, chest, back and buttocks. Although acne breakouts are painful irrespective of where they occur, when it appears on face, it causes lack of self esteem and self confidence. People having facial acne usually confine themselves from attending public events. Therefore, facial acne is painful and causes mental depression as well. Acne is indicated as small bumps called whiteheads, blackheads, pimples, pustules, papules etc. depending upon their severity. Whiteheads, blackheads and pimples are mild acne symptoms of acne vulgaris.
There are many causes of acne such as overproduction of sebum, clogged hair follicles, bacterial and fungal infection, hormones fluctuation, pregnancy, menstrual cycles, menopause, weak immune system, lack of certain essential nutrients etc.
Excessive production of sebum is the fundamental cause of acne breakouts. Most other causes triggers the production of sebum that results in clogged hair follicles and lead to acne breakouts in sequential process. Sebum is secreted from sebaceous glands and increases amount of sebum leads to follicular infection and often the walls of skin pores rupture and sebum enters deep skin layers spreading the infection and you notice pain and extreme burning sensation. It plugs hair tiny hair follicles, restricting the passage of skin oil to come out. As a result, it exerts pressure and a small bump arises that we call whitehead.
Hair follicles also get plugged due dirt, environmental pollutants etc. In this circumstance, using cleansers, exfoliators and scrubs is quite useful that effectively unplugs skin pores. Due to increasing pollution, it may be a root cause of acne.
Most often bacteria usually propionibacterium invades your skin and stimulates the oil producing glands to secrete more sebum and causes inflammation of hair follicles. They play in two ways, restrict hair follicles by inflammation and trigger sebaceous glands to produce more sebum. The result obviously will be bumps and sebum pop out skin, such lesions are called blackheads.
Your body needs hormones for coordination with various organs. Production of these hormones is essential for your body health, when there is a fluctuation in the amount of these hormones, skin's oil producing glands are stimulated and produce excessive amount of sebum that ultimately causes whiteheads, blackheads and pimples.
Hormonal fluctuation is itself depends upon many other situation like pregnancy, menstrual cycles and menopause. A women undergoes excessive production of hormones during and after pregnancy, that's why pregnancy acne has become a great concern for women. Most women never develop acne till their menopause. They suddenly notice bumps and do not know why it happens so? It is because of hormonal disturbance due to menopause.
Weak immune system and lack of essential nutrients like vitamin A, B C and E and certain minerals like zinc and copper also cause pimples and acne lesions. The best solution is to use topical skin care tonics and include fruits and vegetables in your diet.
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