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Suggest Treatment For Acne On Face After Delivery
Question: I had taken advise on acne on my face after delivery of my child. I have been using Adapalene as per doctor's advice on healthcaremagic. I use the Adapalene at night. Is there any other day time treatment i can do to increase the rate of scar reduction. These scars are of the acne I have had since past 8 months since delivery.
Brief Answer:
kindly upload good resolution pictures of the affected area of acne scars.
Detailed Answer:
Hello XXXXXXX
Welcome and thanks for posting your query to the forum.
I can understand your concern for the scars and its treatment.
In view to help you best I request you to kindly upload few good resolution pictures of the affected area so that I can analyze the grade and extent of scars. For that you have a feature on the right side of the page. or else you can send your pictures at
YYYY@YYYY
With attention " Dr . Sanjay XXXXXXX Kanodia "
Do let me know if you are feeding your baby. Present medications which you are using other than Adapalene.
Hope to hear soon from your side.
With regards,
Dr Sanjay Kanodia
MD-DERMATOLOGY
kindly upload good resolution pictures of the affected area of acne scars.
Detailed Answer:
Hello XXXXXXX
Welcome and thanks for posting your query to the forum.
I can understand your concern for the scars and its treatment.
In view to help you best I request you to kindly upload few good resolution pictures of the affected area so that I can analyze the grade and extent of scars. For that you have a feature on the right side of the page. or else you can send your pictures at
YYYY@YYYY
With attention " Dr . Sanjay XXXXXXX Kanodia "
Do let me know if you are feeding your baby. Present medications which you are using other than Adapalene.
Hope to hear soon from your side.
With regards,
Dr Sanjay Kanodia
MD-DERMATOLOGY
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
Hi Uploaded the pictures in the reports section. These are mostly on my cheekbones area. I am feeding my daughter though its not exclusive breast feeding anymore. I used to consume iron and b complex supplements. However, I have been forgetting them for past 20 days.
In morning I use Evion cream and then a sunscreen. at night I use just adapalene.
In morning I use Evion cream and then a sunscreen. at night I use just adapalene.
Brief Answer:
Kojic acid cream with arbutin along with liquorice extract cream
Detailed Answer:
Hello ,
Welcome again to the forum and thanks a lot for your swift response along with pictures.
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.
I can understand your concern for pimples as well marks and bit scars. It is really bothersome to have something unwanted present on our face.
Before I proceed to your issue let me explain you certain points with elaboration which will help us in dealing better with both pimples and scars- Pimples or medically known as Acne vulgaris starts appearing at the age of 13-14 years and then reduces by the age of 25-30 years.
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 hormone 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.
Therefore any of the above factors along with hormones can cause appearance of pimples and then marks till the age of 25-30 years. After the age of 25 years there is less upsurge in the hormones and these gets stabilized and therefore less appearance of pimples after 25 years. So probably you got some idea regarding your acne.
I can see you are young female of 31 years, so in your case the most important factor is the hormonal changes during which are quite common to produce pimples.
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 he times any of the home remedies blocks more of the pores and 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).
For the Acne treatment part - You can very well continue with adapalene and is very suited to reduce the propensity of formation of pimples.
For the marks -In your kind of cases if I were your treating doctor then would prescribed you a combination of skin lightening creams.
I general prescribe Kojic acid cream with arbutin on one night and another cream with soy isoflavones, liquorice extract and Tetrahydro curcumin on the other night. Apply it in such a thin layer that it should not be visible by naked eye. Do not try to rub it.
These are very safe creams and can be used even if you are feeding your baby.
As marks and scars are quite deep so it requires great patience of minimum 8 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)
Kojic acid cream with arbutin along with liquorice extract cream
Detailed Answer:
Hello ,
Welcome again to the forum and thanks a lot for your swift response along with pictures.
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.
I can understand your concern for pimples as well marks and bit scars. It is really bothersome to have something unwanted present on our face.
Before I proceed to your issue let me explain you certain points with elaboration which will help us in dealing better with both pimples and scars- Pimples or medically known as Acne vulgaris starts appearing at the age of 13-14 years and then reduces by the age of 25-30 years.
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 hormone 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.
Therefore any of the above factors along with hormones can cause appearance of pimples and then marks till the age of 25-30 years. After the age of 25 years there is less upsurge in the hormones and these gets stabilized and therefore less appearance of pimples after 25 years. So probably you got some idea regarding your acne.
I can see you are young female of 31 years, so in your case the most important factor is the hormonal changes during which are quite common to produce pimples.
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 he times any of the home remedies blocks more of the pores and 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).
For the Acne treatment part - You can very well continue with adapalene and is very suited to reduce the propensity of formation of pimples.
For the marks -In your kind of cases if I were your treating doctor then would prescribed you a combination of skin lightening creams.
I general prescribe Kojic acid cream with arbutin on one night and another cream with soy isoflavones, liquorice extract and Tetrahydro curcumin on the other night. Apply it in such a thin layer that it should not be visible by naked eye. Do not try to rub it.
These are very safe creams and can be used even if you are feeding your baby.
As marks and scars are quite deep so it requires great patience of minimum 8 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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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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