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Acne in Puberty Stage

Acne in puberty stage develops from a few simple steps. First teenage acne occurs due to some unknown reason or combination of reasons. Hair follicles also known as pores become blocked. Although the exact combination of reasons may not be fully known, many causative elements for teenagers and adults alike can include:

• genetics (whether there is a history of acne problems and if so to what extent)
• hormones
• dietary and vitamin make up (or lack of /deficiency)
• stress related factors

Other reasons in the development of puberty acne could include factors like how your body normally gets rid of its dead skin cells. In addition, influences that may be working against this regularity for instance, are climate and other environmental factors. The other factors include overall body health at the time of the outbreak and the hormones and their effect on one's own body's sebum production (especially for females).

Secondly, the normal dead skin cells that merge with one's body's natural sebum oil as it drains through the skin's surface become clogged in these blocked pores. This substance becomes somewhat sticky further clogging the duct.

In the third step the bacteria begins to grow around these clogged areas. As a standard reaction, the body's white blood cells attack the bacteria by pushing it out of the body.

Then the resulting growth during this fourteen day to twenty-one day battle is called microcomedones. Microcomedones change into comedones commonly referred to as blemishes, pimples or acne.

There are basically four types of puberty acne:

• whiteheads
• blackheads
• pimples and
• nodules.

Whiteheads are formed when the sebum (oil) and resulting bacteria are trapped below the surface of the skin and one can actually see a white head appear above (or popping out of) the skin.

Blackheads are developed when the sebum and resulting bacteria are only partially trapped, slowly flowing out the surface and turning black because of skin's melanin or pigmentation.

In the absence of either whitehead or blackhead, there are generally (but not always) smaller pimples. Moreover, the often-deeper, boil-like lesions are referred to as nodules.

All forms of puberty acne can be mild, moderate or severe. Normally, mild puberty acne is noticeable in the form of whiteheads and blackheads or sometimes pimples.

With reasonable puberty acne, more pimples and pustules are present on the face some may appear on the back or chest.

Moreover, with severe puberty acne many nodules develop often large and sore over parts of the face, back, chest and other body areas. This type of acne can lead to scarring.

Actually minor cases of puberty acne have been followed by scarring. So it is recommended to seek advice from a healthcare provider as soon as possible for those with possible nodular acne.

A gender subject to note is that males more often have the severe form of acne rather than females due to their hormones. In addition, the areas where they tend to break out most frequently are unfortunately more difficult to treat, the chest and the back.