Sunday, August 3, 2008

How antibiotics work for acne within the body?


What is an antibiotic?

An antibiotic is a synthetic or natural substance that destroys bacterial proteins and inhibits the replication within your body cells. As a result, your cells are healed up. But most often, antibiotics not only destroys bacterial proteins but also the cellular proteins of your body cells. This the main issue of antibiotics.

Why you use antibiotics for acne?
Most people use antibiotics so carelessly that they do not verify if they need it or not. Although acne outbreak is so extreme, you can not consider it as bacterial acne unless your doctor diagnoses.

In case, your acne is diagnosed to be bacterial, you should use antibiotics. Let us learn how antibiotics work against bacteria?

Antibiotics ant their action:

Although there are numerous types of bacteria that cause inflammation of sebaceous glands and hair follicles, the most common type of bacteria are:
# Propionibacteria
# Staphylococcus bacteria
These bacteria use nutrients from your body and prepare harmful protein that infects the sebaceous gland and hair follicles.

Antibiotics act on the DNA of the bacteria and inhibit the production of bacterial proteins. Once bacterial DNA is destroyed, your skin and sebaceous glands turn normal.

What types of antibiotics are available for acne?
There are enormous number of antibiotics available, some are broad spectrum while some are specifically formulated for acne and other related skin disorders.
Broad spectrum antibiotics kill wide rang of bacterial species and genus.
Some most prescribed antibiotics for acne are:
# Clindamycin
# Erythromycin

Most often it happens that antibiotics aggravate acne, why it happens?
Yes, it is common observation that some people develop more acne after using antibiotics. It is because, most antibiotics use other types of bacteria or yeast that kill acne producing bacteria, and sometimes these bacteria act reversely. So avoid such antibiotics that contain yeast and cultured bacteria.

Conclusion:
There are a variety of causes of acne, before taking antibiotics for acne, make sure that you are having bacterial acne as otherwise you will waste your time and resources. Yeast and cultured bacteria containing antibiotics should not be used as they may aggravate acne and produce abscess.

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