Severe Acne

Deep cysts, inflammation, and excessive damage to the acne scars on the surface of the skin can cause severe acne.

The social life of person is affected by severe acne and it may cause embarrassment and stress to the people who are suffered from acne.

People with this type of acne go to the dermatologist for treatment. The treatment for severe acne takes long term for removing them.

Types of Severe Acne

Nodulocystic Acne

This type of acne appears on the chest, back, scalp, shoulders, back and other parts of the body. It can cause by inflammation around the nodules on the surface of the skin. This acne normally develops after getting the cysts on the outer layer of the skin and from a popular acne or nodular lesion. Isotretinoin or antibiotics are used to treat these types of severe acne.

Acne Conglobata

This is the chronic and severe type of acne vulgaris, which are included scarring, severe damage to the skin, inflammation, blackheads and deep abscesses. Many inflammatory nodules make around the area of multiple comedones and have become acne on the skin. Isotretinoin is used to remove this type of acne.

Acne Fulminans

It appears suddenly on the skin of people who are suffered from inflammatory acne. This type of acne can cause by symptoms of ulcerating and severe acne and inflammation of knees, hips and joints and high fever. Corticosteroids are very effective to treat acne fulminans.

Causes, signs and symptoms

Severe acne is developed by heredity, bacterial infection and changes in the level of hormones. This type of acne may cause bumps and large cysts on the skin, which can give results of acne scars on the skin’s surface. The disfiguring deep pitting scars of the chest, cysts, neck and face are the main symptoms of this acne.

Diagnosis

Physical examination is recommended by the health care providers to determine the severe acne of the face, neck, and shoulders and back of body. One, who has severe acne, should consult the dermatologist for diagnosis of this acne.

Treatment

There are large numbers of physical methods and prescription medications available in the market to remove severe acne from the surface of the skin.

Drainage and Surgical Excision

Drainage and surgical extraction treatment is very effective in case of untreated large cysts on the body with other medications and therapies.

Isotretinoin

Isotretinoin works as a synthetic retinoid to treat severe cystic acne. This is very effective medication to reduce excess oil production from the skin, eliminated the clogged pores on the skin. It is also used to reduce P.acnes and inflammation from the skin’s surface.

Oral antibiotics

Oral antibiotics are also good to reduce severe acne, P.acnes and inflammation from the surface of the skin. Patients should take dose of this medication as directed by health care providers.