Age specific acnes

For the last decades, cases of acne in varying age levels had been significantly rising. A published study known as Prevalence of Facial Acne on Adults suggested that the current mean age for acne patients treated these past ten years range from 20.5 to 26.5 years old.

Nowadays, acne is no longer considered as puberty-related disease, rather a skin disorder that at times may become severe skin diseases. A number of infants had been noted to be born with acne, however this cleared off a few months following birth. Though this is true, infants born with this skin disorder are more prone to acquire acne later on their lives.

Interestingly, a comparison of acne occurrence between males and females were observed. Female infants are less likely to have infantile acne than that of males. Then, in puberty, teenage girls have lesser acne than boys. In adulthood though, males have lesser chance of becoming infected with acne than females.

Fundamentally, acne is a universal skin disorder. Meaning, there are no specific factors why people acquire this disease; in a sense urbanisation is out of question. People all-over the world has equal risk of being affected with this skin disease.

Acne is categorized into two groups, the mild form that is treated externally and the severe form, which must be addressed by a dermatologist, often requiring oral treatments by means of antibiotics.

If acne cases are based on the severity of affection, they can be categorized into papule, comedo, nodule, pustule, and cyst types.

The simplest form of acne is a red lesion or swelling found on the surface of the skin due to bacterial attack on the tissue called comedo. Propionic bacterium or P. acnes is a bacteria that generally lives on the skin that may cause the acne occurrence through it’s production of certain chemicals and enzymes which decomposes the tissue wall in order to penetrate the hair canal.

This action results into the swelling, pain and read more