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5 Antibiotics For Acne Cure - Reasons To Be Cautious Using Them

Posted by William Warren on Tuesday, June 30, 2009,
What causes acne?

When puberty begins, young people begin to experience a wide variety of developmental physical, physiological and emotional changes. The obvious physical changes include beard and muscle development in young males, and young females, with the onset of menses, also start to develop breasts and wider hips. In addition, the normal progressions toward adulthood produce rapid hormone changes frequently causing mood swings and the often embarrassing side effect of Acne Vulgaris.
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Tetracycline Antibiotics For Acne Treatment

Posted by William Warren on Tuesday, June 30, 2009,

Discovered in the late 1940s, Tetracyclines are a family of broad spectrum antibiotics used to treat a wide range of bacterial infections. The original tetracyclines were derived from Streptomyces bacteria, but the newer derivatives are semisynthetic.

The tetracycline antibiotics are the workhorses in oral acne therapy. They're the first-line oral antibiotic drugs of choice in the management of moderate to severe acne. They were first widely prescribed by dermatologists in the early 1950s when...
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When You Should Use Antibiotics For Acne

Posted by William Warren on Tuesday, June 30, 2009,

Acne is a condition that has been misunderstood for many years, and in the past it was thought that acne was a resulted from all manner of things, from not washing properly to eating too much chocolate. It was also thought by many that acne affected only adolescents. However, there are many myths about acne, and the truth is that this is a condition that can affect different people of varying ages, at different levels of severity, and for a variety of reasons that are usually beyond the contr...

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