General treatment

Avoidance of chocolate, cola drinks, and fatty foods has long been recommended to patients with acne; however, there are few well-controlled studies that support this recommendation. The present consensus opposes dietary restrictions in the treatment. If, however, a patient notices an increase in lesions associated with intake of certain foods, it would be wise to avoid those items.

Daily washing, with ordinary facial soaps, usually is a satisfactory method for removing excess sebum from skin. Antibacterial or "medicated" soaps offer very little additional benefit. Commonly available "anti-acne" soaps or cleansers containing salicylic acid, sulfur, or resorcinol are rarely considered effective and are washed away by rinsing. Abradant cleansers containing finely divided particles with cleansers and wetting agents are popular and are though to assist removal of the outer layer of dead skin cells by abrasion, exfoliation, and loosening of comedones. These abradants, however, are often an additional source of injury to inflamed skin, are ineffective at removing deeply rooted comedones, and are generally not recommended.

Heat and humidity, sunlight, friction, occlusion, pressure from athletic equipment, cosmetics, moisturizers, sunscreens, and stress are all capable of aggravating acne. Water-based cosmetics may be recommended to acne-prone patients since "oil-free" formulations may contain other oil-like substances capable of producing "acne cosmetica" by follicular occlusion.

Remove blackheads efectively

Treatment of cystic acne

Efective antibiotics for acne

Safe-topical agent

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Diet for acne sufferers