There isn’t any medical treatment that will cure acne 100%. Medical treatment can help to decrease the disease’s duration. Medical treatment can also make the disease more tolerant to to the environment and can help avoid complications like scarring. Acne treatment includes:
1. Deep skin cleaning with liquid soaps to remove dirt and sufficient sebum from the skin.
2. Decreasing sebum secretion with creams that contain bio-sulfur.
3. Skin peeling with Vitamin-A-acid, benzoylperoxid, and azelaic acid.
4. Local and oral antibiotics (erythromycin, klindamycin, tetracycline)... and local antiseptics.
5. Birth control pills (for women).
6. 13-cys-retinic acid to induce atrophy of the sebaceous glands in the skin.
7. Manuallyexpelling the sebum out of the acne.
8. Photo-therapy.
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