Treatment Options For Cystic Acne Are Varied - written by Mirjan Stojanovic

Among three major types of acne namely cystic, inflammatory, and comedonal, the first one i.e. cystic acne is the most painful. Cystic acne makes its presence because of an infection at the site of the pimple. Cystic acne is generally inherited and extremely hurting and most of the times creates an ugly everlasting scar. If you wish to throw out your acne, you should have the information about which kind of acne you have since not all sorts of acne are removed by a general type of therapy and the success of therapy depends chiefly on the category of acne.

Mostly acne is removed by the most renowned duo of topically administered retinoid and orally administered antibiotic. But if acne is not cured by this pair, it indicates that the acne is the most hurting sort namely cystic acne and two options exist to cure it. First is drug isotretinoin and the second is procedure-based treatments which include treatment with laser or light which weakens inflammation and devastates the P. acnes the bacteria which is the underlying cause of acne.

Isotretinoin is a very efficacious medication to remove acne. It normally cleanses out harsh and scarring upsurge which is not removed by any other treatment. However this medication gives numerous side effects, like inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis, liver damage, bony malformation and depression. At times it may even produce birth defects in the newborn when is administered by a pregnant lady.

From 2005, the FDA set a tracking record on the web known as iPledge. It needs all acne patients to register in the database to get their prescription of isotretinoin. Ladies need to submit a couple of negative tests for pregnancy while signing in the database so that they can achieve the first prescription. After that for each refill they should do pregnancy test each month to maintain obtaining the prescription. Men as well are tracked because they suffer from distress as a side effect of isotretinoin.

Isotretinoin also impairs the action of wound correction and hence though the cystic acne is treated it characteristically leaves a scar.

As isotretinoin is such an arguable medication, two other options exist viz. photodynamic therapy and isolaz. In photodynamic therapy, the prescription medication is applied on face, neck and chest wherever acne occurs and the light or laser is administered to stimulate the medication. Due to this the drug devastates the pathogens and additively it lessens the size and also action of skin's sebaceous glands.

Isolaz technique comprises of a mixture of a broadband light and a vacuum. The job of vacuum is to clean pores and eliminate extra sebum or oil and the light eradicate the bacteria and also decreases the activity of skin's oil glands.

Recently an extremely potent therapy for cystic acne has been explored which comprises of natural drugs like oil of tea tree, an essence of most potent plants and algae, a mask which absorbs dirt as well as pathogens, conditioning ointment and tava tea which should be taken to cure acne from inside the body. All these ingredients are to be administered slowly to decrease the acne. Finally the cystic acne gets completely cured.