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Suggest Treatment For Dull And Dark Skin With Pimples And Hair Fall
Brief Answer:
Kinldy elaborate query and send pictures.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Welcome and thanks for posting your query to the forum.
I can understand your concern for dull and darker with pimples along with hair fall.
In view to help you best I humbly request you to kindly elaborate your concern in terms of certain important things:
- Since exactly how long you started looking dull and darker with acne.
- Did the dull and darker skin started first or the pimples first.
- Do you have pimple problem before joining the gym and became aggravated or it started after joining gym.
- How many hair fall per day - around 25/50/100/ more than 100.
- Any food supplement or protein supplement or anything given by gym people or consumed by your own.
- Tell me about occupation with your daily routine including your diet, exposure to sunlight or computers.
- How much of smoking (number of cigarettes per day).
I also request you to upload good resolution pictures of the face area. You can upload the report by utilizing our service. For that you have a feature to upload images of the reports by yourself at the right side of the query page. Or else, you can send as an attachment to YYYY@YYYY with the subject as "Attn: Dr. Sanjay Kumar Kanodia.
"Wish you good health"
Regards,
Dr Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
MD (Dermatology)
Kinldy elaborate query and send pictures.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Welcome and thanks for posting your query to the forum.
I can understand your concern for dull and darker with pimples along with hair fall.
In view to help you best I humbly request you to kindly elaborate your concern in terms of certain important things:
- Since exactly how long you started looking dull and darker with acne.
- Did the dull and darker skin started first or the pimples first.
- Do you have pimple problem before joining the gym and became aggravated or it started after joining gym.
- How many hair fall per day - around 25/50/100/ more than 100.
- Any food supplement or protein supplement or anything given by gym people or consumed by your own.
- Tell me about occupation with your daily routine including your diet, exposure to sunlight or computers.
- How much of smoking (number of cigarettes per day).
I also request you to upload good resolution pictures of the face area. You can upload the report by utilizing our service. For that you have a feature to upload images of the reports by yourself at the right side of the query page. Or else, you can send as an attachment to YYYY@YYYY with the subject as "Attn: Dr. Sanjay Kumar Kanodia.
"Wish you good health"
Regards,
Dr Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
MD (Dermatology)
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
i remember the acne and pimple problem is long time back , started looking dull and darker from last 6 months, i have joined the gym just 5days before and i have noticed the face skin becoming more dull , darker with acne and pimples. hairfall is very less may be around 15 a day, i am not taking any supplement as of now, m into self employed construction activities but most of time i m at AC office ,ofcourse the stress is there , i smoke 10 cigaratess in a day. exposure to sunlight is not much but computer and all is there. i m a pure vegetarian and take healthy meals like sprouts, chena, milk, fruits , less rice and roti , my weight is 69 kg and my height is 5.8
i have send you my pic for you to go through the same , you can see the greasy kind of skin becoming darker and dull. when i wash my face or take a bath it looks really fresh and bright but immedietly after may be 5 mts it looks the same.
i used dove soap all this days and head and shoulders sham
i have send you my pic for you to go through the same , you can see the greasy kind of skin becoming darker and dull. when i wash my face or take a bath it looks really fresh and bright but immedietly after may be 5 mts it looks the same.
i used dove soap all this days and head and shoulders sham
Brief Answer:
Quit smoking & do yoga preferably
Detailed Answer:
Hello Young smart fellow,
Welcome again and thanks for further follow up.
After getting all the informations as well as analyzing the pictures I can make out that you have the problem of mild adult onset acne with early aging changes.
Acne or pimples generally appears at the age of 13-14 years and then almost vanishes by the age of 25 years. These erupts basically due to hormones (chemicals which are influencing one or other body functions including growth, puberty and development of body in adults) in addition to the influence of certain other factors causing its aggravation. The hormone testosterone and its bye-products plays the most important role in high oil secretion and increase the size of oil glands especially in males.
As I said these vanishes by the age of 25 years but because of certain reasons it can recur back. Any of the cause which blocks the pore of oil gland will lead to formation of pimples.
These can be blocked due to heavy sweating as well smoking tends to produce more damage to pores. 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.
So probably you got some idea regarding your acne.
For dark and dull skin- the sole most important factor is your cigarette smoking. Our skin gets renewed everyday and millions of cells are regenerated and repaired during this process. Ten cigarettes a day is quite enough to produce damage to our renewal system of skin.
So an improper renewal system can cat better before 30 years but after 30 years our own system is getting down. This leads to dull and darker skin.
There are certain 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.
4. Try avoiding situations of direct continuous exposure to sunlight or heat and humidity for long hours. Make your room properly ventilated it will improve the status of pimples.
5. Kindly do not use any medications or antibiotic as self medication.
6. Do not apply any hair oil on scalp or apply in very less amount.
7. DO not apply any creams or cosmetic on face.
8. 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).
9. After gym you should give compression with towel soaked in cold water for 5 -10minutes.
10. In my opinion you should do do yoga preferably. It will not only tone your muscles but reduce the sweating and thereby more oil secretion.
The most important factor to get better is by quitting smoking at the earliest. I can see you are quite smart and handsome man but if you want to stay the same then you have to stop smoking. You can see there are dark circles developing around your eyes. So it is the better time to get alarmed for your health.
For the treatment part you do not require any specific thing. You can use a salicylic acid based face wash (Saslic face wash). The face wash will take care of the extra oil coming out from the oil glands. Additionally it is better to be used during this hot and humid season.
Increase the contents of fruits with lot of vitamin C in daily schedule.
You should also know that falling of upto 50 -100 hair per day is normal process. So 15 hair falling per day is not at all a problem state and is normal renewal of hair only.
I will be glad to answer any further queries or if not then can close the discussion and rate the answer.
For any future clarifications and guidance you can ask me directly at:
bit.ly/drsanjaykanodia
“with good health wishes”
Regards,
Dr Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
MD-Dermatology
Quit smoking & do yoga preferably
Detailed Answer:
Hello Young smart fellow,
Welcome again and thanks for further follow up.
After getting all the informations as well as analyzing the pictures I can make out that you have the problem of mild adult onset acne with early aging changes.
Acne or pimples generally appears at the age of 13-14 years and then almost vanishes by the age of 25 years. These erupts basically due to hormones (chemicals which are influencing one or other body functions including growth, puberty and development of body in adults) in addition to the influence of certain other factors causing its aggravation. The hormone testosterone and its bye-products plays the most important role in high oil secretion and increase the size of oil glands especially in males.
As I said these vanishes by the age of 25 years but because of certain reasons it can recur back. Any of the cause which blocks the pore of oil gland will lead to formation of pimples.
These can be blocked due to heavy sweating as well smoking tends to produce more damage to pores. 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.
So probably you got some idea regarding your acne.
For dark and dull skin- the sole most important factor is your cigarette smoking. Our skin gets renewed everyday and millions of cells are regenerated and repaired during this process. Ten cigarettes a day is quite enough to produce damage to our renewal system of skin.
So an improper renewal system can cat better before 30 years but after 30 years our own system is getting down. This leads to dull and darker skin.
There are certain 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.
4. Try avoiding situations of direct continuous exposure to sunlight or heat and humidity for long hours. Make your room properly ventilated it will improve the status of pimples.
5. Kindly do not use any medications or antibiotic as self medication.
6. Do not apply any hair oil on scalp or apply in very less amount.
7. DO not apply any creams or cosmetic on face.
8. 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).
9. After gym you should give compression with towel soaked in cold water for 5 -10minutes.
10. In my opinion you should do do yoga preferably. It will not only tone your muscles but reduce the sweating and thereby more oil secretion.
The most important factor to get better is by quitting smoking at the earliest. I can see you are quite smart and handsome man but if you want to stay the same then you have to stop smoking. You can see there are dark circles developing around your eyes. So it is the better time to get alarmed for your health.
For the treatment part you do not require any specific thing. You can use a salicylic acid based face wash (Saslic face wash). The face wash will take care of the extra oil coming out from the oil glands. Additionally it is better to be used during this hot and humid season.
Increase the contents of fruits with lot of vitamin C in daily schedule.
You should also know that falling of upto 50 -100 hair per day is normal process. So 15 hair falling per day is not at all a problem state and is normal renewal of hair only.
I will be glad to answer any further queries or if not then can close the discussion and rate the answer.
For any future clarifications and guidance you can ask me directly at:
bit.ly/drsanjaykanodia
“with good health wishes”
Regards,
Dr Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
MD-Dermatology
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Vinay Bhardwaj
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