What Treatment Is Available For Severe AcneWritten by Steve Williams
Severe acne can be detrimental to thin layers of skin on your forehead and face. It can also cause extreme irritation, resulting in open wounds, puss-filled pores, and unsightly scarring. This type of acne is quite different than mild or moderate cases. Severe acne needs immediate attention of a qualified dermatologist and your family practitioner. Severe or acute acne can be caused by both environmental and genetic variables. Prevention and treatment are best ways to deal with such cases. Seldom does an extreme acne sufferer's skin clear up naturally, but in most instances, it actually worsens. Usually a dermatologist will recommend a combination of both topical cream and oral drugs. Several types available include different antibiotics, benzyl peroxides, Tretinoin, Adapalen and strong, yet effective Azelaic Acid. Antibiotics and this acid can work wonderfully, attacking source of inflammation-the bacteria lining follicle. The other topical drug, Tretinoin, is simply a form of vitamin A that stops development of comedones, or inflamed hair follicles. While it doesn't necessarily stop growth of bacteria, this is a more natural way of unplugging clogged pores that cause inflammation and lesions, thereby allowing use of topical antibiotic cream to work deeply within skin. Another drug that isn't so natural in it's approach are newer forms of Retinoid drugs. These drugs are quite powerful in way they work. Like Tretinoin, these drugs, often Tazarotene or Adapalen, also help to fight off development of comedones or comedo lesions.
| | Introduction to AromatherapyWritten by Loring A. Windblad
Copyright 2004 by http://www.organicgreens.us and Loring Windblad. This article may be freely copied and used on other web sites only if it is copied complete with all links and text intact and unchanged except for minor improvements such as misspellings and typos. My sweetie (my wife June) had breast cancer a few years ago and we opted 1) to have a lymph-ectomy (mistake) and later 2) radiation (good decision). Regardless of whether it was a mistake we did it and result is that she has to be very careful about not injuring her right arm. Last summer and fall she burned herself on our oven three times, one of them very seriously. She happened to go on an outing with several girl friends right after bad burn and in talking it over with them they decided to put therapeutic-grade lavender essential oil on burn. She could feel it healing immediately and in spite of this being a large burn (2 x 6) it healed with only a very small scar, about size of a half-quarter (like a half-moon shape). Non-therapeutic-grade lavender helped two previous burns as well. We have been using essential oils for several years, for rubs, for aromatherapy*, disinfecting and healing small cuts and abrasions, etc. But this was first time we had learned of its healing properties for burns. And was girls used was a much better grade of lavender than we had at home. We have since replaced all our oils with Young Living essential oils and find that they are much more powerful and a far superior grade. Its also interesting to note very modern history of aromatherapy* as documented below. *Aromatherapy is a phrase coined by Rene-Maurice Gattefosse, Ph.D., in 1920, who was a French cosmetic chemist. While working in his laboratory, he had an accident that resulted in a third degree thermal burn of his hand and forearm. He plunged his arm into a vat of lavender oil, thinking that it was water. To his surprise, burning slowly decreased and then stopped within a few moments. Over a period of time, with continual application of lavender oil, burn healed completely without a trace of a scar. As a chemist, he analyzed essential oil of lavender and discovered that it contained many substances referred to as chemical constituents or chemical properties. As a result of this, Dr. Gattefosse determined that essential oils contained tremendous healing properties.
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