Tuesday, February 3, 2009

What May Causes Adult Acne?

By David Lam

Just like many people in the world, the question of what may cause adult acne has been a tireless quest in search of an answer to a problem that plagues many individuals. For example almost 25 percent of all adults and 90 percent of all adolescents are acne sufferers. In terms of gender approximately 50% of all adult men and 50% of all adult women have problem with adult acne.

One difference in gender is where the acne outbreak takes place and the severity of blackheads and zits that form. Males are more often have the severe acne rather than females due to their hormones. Normally the infected areas where tend to break out most frequently are more difficult to treat.

The real cause of adult acne can truly be a blend of several factors. Typically there are several steps which lead to pimples, blackheads, zits and minor skin blemishes. The main cause of acne is because of the blocking or clogging of hair follicles which more commonly know as pores.

Unfortunately the reasons and combination of situations which cause pores to become clogged is not fully known. There are many contributing elements for adults and teenagers alike which can include hereditary factors. Some experts claim that acne also caused by vitamin supplemental intake, hormones and stress related factors.

Other forces or events that can strongly affect the development of adult acne include your body's normal function of eradicating itself of its dead skin cells. This cycle gets out of whack or becomes abnormal while climate and other environmental forces or overall body health at the time. It can cause your hormones and their effect on your own body's sebum development to increase that is bad for your complexion however outstanding for breeding acne.

When the body's function of shedding dead skin cells becomes unstable, the normal dead skin cells which combine with your body's natural sebum oil because it drains through the skin surface become clogged and cause blocked pores. This stuff becomes somewhat sticky and further clogging the passageway. This allows the incubating and cultivating of bacteria which starts to grow around these clogged areas.

As a normal reaction, your body's white blood cells attack the bacteria by fighting it and pushing it out of the body. The outcome of this battle between the white blood cells and bacteria leads to a growth normally within 14-day to 21-days. These growths are referred to as microcomedones which turn into comedones and commonly referred to as adult acne.

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