| While teen years are normally
associated with great hormonal changes in the body,
young adult may also experience hormonal changes. Some
people display a delayed release of reproductive hormones.
These delays may be the result of poor diet, or by a
neurological condition. In any case, the delay means
that the production of hormones suddenly increases,
after a person has completed his or her teenage years.
Products that are now being used in Europe give doctors
hope for new ways to find the best treatment for adult
acne. Some of those products are progesterone-estrogen
combinations. Other products act as androgen receptor
blockers. Products with progesterone and estrogen are
being used on female adults with acne. Products with
androgen receptor blockers have demonstrated the ability
to control acne in older male patients.
Not all cases of adult acne are caused by hormonal changes.
Sometimes an adult needs to take a medication that encourages
the formation of hormones. The body metabolizes medicines.
Each metabolic process in the body generally relies
on chemicals called enzymes. That fact helps to explain
the association between adult acne and the ingestion
of certain medications.
A list of adult acne causes, like the causes of teenage
acne, should include mention of P. acnes. This bacterium
lives on the oily skin of people who have acne. The
presence of bacteria on the skin incites the release
of white blood cells, the cells of the immune system.
White blood cells attacking bacteria can cause infammation
of the skin.
Why do white blood cellsinflame the skin? The actions
of the immune system often lead to the production of
enzymes. The bacteria in the skin seek to counter the
body’s attack by producing enzymes. These enzymes
change the sebum in the skin into free fatty acids.
Those fatty acids then inflame the skin.
Now imagine what might happen if the enzymes from the
bacteria in the skin happen to mix with enzymes that
are metabolizing a particular medication. This could
have a truly damaging effect on the skin cells and may
lead to the release of certain chemotactic factors.
Those chemotactic factors then summon the release of
neutrophils. The flood of new chemicals in the skin
thus acts as a cause for adult acne and can lead to
body acne as well.
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