Skin care: Harmony in your skin

Skin care : Harmony in your skin

- Acne requires many months for reasonable control and psychological impact on people who suffer

- negative psychological effects on the image itself, cause frustration on public appearance

- Adult Acne is an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous follicle most common in adolescents, but also occurs in adults, both men and women, and in some severe cases affects the face, chest and back

- Acne requires many months for reasonable control and psychological impact on people who suffer

- negative psychological effects on the image itself, cause frustration on public appearance

Adult Acne is an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous follicle most common in adolescents, but also occurs in adults, both men and women, and in some severe cases affects the face, chest and back

Acne: a severe condition

Acne is an inflammatory disease of the most common sebaceous follicle in adolescents, but also occurs in adults, both men and women, and in some severe cases affects the face, chest and back, leaving marks for life.

There are a number of factors that predetermine severe acne: Family history, stress, smoking, and lately, some studies relate the role of diet and acne through processed foods high in sugar, refined carbohydrates, fried foods and dairy .

Acne requires many months for reasonable control and psychological impact on people who suffer. Body image is very important and when you have acne a body dissatisfaction, impacting especially when it affects the face, resulting in some people negative psychological effects on their lives occurs.

The negative psychological effects on the image itself, cause frustration on public appearance, especially if residual lesions cause disfiguring acne on the face, chest or back. In other cases, before this clinical situation may require psychiatric or psychological treatment depending on the severity of acne and its psychological manifestations in the patient.

Faced with a visible skin disease, each person manifests differently, depending on the self-esteem you have. For some patients the psychological impact is so strong that affects their quality of life and can lead to severe depression, which has to be identified and treated, avoiding complications.

Symptoms that can guide to know if patients have negative psychological impact are irritability, temperamental actions, little interest, negativity, affecting sleep, school problems, increased stress, low self-esteem and somatization.

Sometimes it happens that the patient already has symptoms of depression sub-clinical, before the emergence of acne and this could make it worse.

Psychological illness in people with acne should be perceived and treated promptly and give importance like any other disease.

Usually teenagers are characterized by a period of psychological instability naturally, without requiring psychological treatment, it is important for them to have a good body image.

In conclusion, we should not trivialize the psychological symptoms that may present patients with acne stress, especially in the most severe cases. It is essential to address cases of holistically, not only dermatologically, but also psychologically increasing their self-esteem and mitigating their emotional feelings.