60% to 85% of young people between 12 and 25 and 11% of people over 25 have some form of acne. In more than one third of cases this disease requires serious and sometimes prolonged specialist treatment. According to a survey, 80% of teenagers believe acne to be the single most unattractive thing in a person. Presence of acne on visible skin areas lowers a person’s self-esteem, causes anxiety, depression and dysmorphophobia (perception of an imagined disfigurement). Patients with acne have a lot of difficulties adapting to the social environment. A high percentage of them are unemployed and single.
Acne is an inflammatory disease of hair follicles and skin oil glands. Usually, areas with a large amount of oil glands are affected, such as face, chest and back. The term “acne” is relatively new to dermatology. Previously, this condition was known as blackheads and blackhead rash.
Acne signifies not only the appearance of a rash, but a change in the condition of the entire body. The acne problem and its solutions are not left to dermatologists alone, but also involve gynecologists, endocrinologists and general medical practitioners.
Types of acne:
1. Comedones (comedo sou acne comedonica) are blocked oil glands filled with sebaceous matter;
2. Acne papulosa are surface inflammatory nodules, pink or cyanochronic in colour, and are up to a small pea in size;
3. Papulo-pustular acne (acne papulosa et papulopustulosa) are acne papulosa with a pustule in the middle;
4. Indurative acne (acne indurativa) are large, deep and dense cyanochronic papular or papulo- pustular elements;
5. Phlegmonous acne (acne phlegmonosa) are soft, flat, bright red painful bodies up to 1cm in diameter; a large amount of pus is produced after they are opened;
6. Acne conglobata is a product of joining of several acne bodies;
7. Acne fulminans;
8. Acne inversa.
The majority of patients belong to the acne comedonica and acne papulopustulosa categories (1 & 2). All other types are relatively rare, but what is important to know, is that Hyalual® redermalization can assist with the first two common types as a successful post-acne treatment.
Acne is an inflammatory disease of hair follicles and skin oil glands. Usually, areas with a large amount of oil glands are affected, such as face, chest and back. The term “acne” is relatively new to dermatology. Previously, this condition was known as blackheads and blackhead rash.
Acne signifies not only the appearance of a rash, but a change in the condition of the entire body. The acne problem and its solutions are not left to dermatologists alone, but also involve gynecologists, endocrinologists and general medical practitioners.
Types of acne:
1. Comedones (comedo sou acne comedonica) are blocked oil glands filled with sebaceous matter;
2. Acne papulosa are surface inflammatory nodules, pink or cyanochronic in colour, and are up to a small pea in size;
3. Papulo-pustular acne (acne papulosa et papulopustulosa) are acne papulosa with a pustule in the middle;
4. Indurative acne (acne indurativa) are large, deep and dense cyanochronic papular or papulo- pustular elements;
5. Phlegmonous acne (acne phlegmonosa) are soft, flat, bright red painful bodies up to 1cm in diameter; a large amount of pus is produced after they are opened;
6. Acne conglobata is a product of joining of several acne bodies;
7. Acne fulminans;
8. Acne inversa.
The majority of patients belong to the acne comedonica and acne papulopustulosa categories (1 & 2). All other types are relatively rare, but what is important to know, is that Hyalual® redermalization can assist with the first two common types as a successful post-acne treatment.