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Pimples : various suggestions and guidance.

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Hello,

Welcome and thanks for posting your query to the forum.

I have gone through the pictures sent by you and after thoroughly analyzing the pictures I can make out that you have pimples with pigmentation and marks and bit red scars.

Before I suggest you the main preventive points let you understand the basic facts which will be helpful in dealing the condition: The main cause of pimple formation is basically due to hormones (chemicals which are influencing one or other body functions) in addition to the influence of certain other factors causing its aggravation.

The hormones plays the most important role in high oil secretion and increase the size of oil glands. As the pores or ducts of the glands are blocked so it leads to formation of pimples.

There are certain other factors such as application of oily or creamy products, over exposure to sunlight, heat and humidity or due to pinching, popping and squeezing of the pimples also leads to formation of pimples. Once these are healing they leave the most problematic thing which are either marks or scars.


There are certain best of suggestions which you can follow:

1. Do not pinch, pop or squeeze any area on face.

2. Do not apply any creamy or oily stuff or any other cosmetics over face.

3. Try to avoid any home remedies suggested by your friends or family members or otherwise self implicated therapies also. Most of the times any of the home remedies blocks more of the pores and it results in more aggravation of pimples.

4. Do not take steam or steam bath or massage on your face as these also aggravates the pimples.

5. Try avoiding situations of direct continuous exposure to sunlight or heat and humidity for long hours.

6. Kindly do not use any antibiotic as self medication.

7. Do not apply any hair oil on scalp or apply in very less amount. Wash your scalp daily with some good shampoo and let there be no dandruff in your scalp (because dandruff itself causes blockage of pores of oil glands and then pimples).

8. As your marriage is ahead so be very careful in your cosmetics as well as any facials. A massage with creams on face can cause more eruptions, so kindly either avoid or ask your parlor person to be careful for gentle massage.

I were your treating doctor then would prescribed you a gel containing Clindamycin 1% gel in it. It is to be applied at nigh time in a very thin layer so that it should not be visible to the naked eye.

Additionally for the earliest relief I would have prescribed you an oral antibiotic such as Azithromycin 500 mg for three times weekly.

As marks and scars are quite deep so it requires great patience of minimum few weeks to see the results for marks.

I suggest you to meet a proper dermatologist and discuss all the points as suggested above.

Hope this information will help you. If you have any further query I will be happy to help.

Regards,
Dr. Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
MD (Dermatology)

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