Is it possible to prevent acne? Most people would not even consider asking the
question unless they were troubled by this disease in the first place, so it is
not really a matter of preventing acne from occurring at all, but of curing it
first, then preventing its return.

Much advice in the western world
declares that diet is not a factor in causing acne, yet those who live in some
other countries are not affected by the condition. Whether this is an inherited
factor, or caused by diet has not been decided yet.

There are many who
now believe that diet does play a large part in bringing on acne, while there
are just as many, or perhaps even more who believe that junk food, chocolate and
foods high in sugar and fats have nothing to do with acne. The trouble is that
if you were not affected by it, you would not be motivated to modify your diet
to resemble that of the eastern nations.

One thing is clear; acne is not
caused by dirt. It is caused when the oil in our body is not metabolized
efficiently and dead skin cells become sticky and block the pores of the skin.
Bacteria then enters into the pores and causes infection and inflammation.


So what can be done to prevent this happening? It seems logical to eat
less fatty foods, but our body may produce oils in any case. Hygiene helps to
control it, yet acne is not caused by dirt, but by bacteria normally present on
the skin. Therefore, it seems that we must try to prevent acne by using several
different methods at the one time.

Zinc gluconate and some antibiotics
administered orally are both effective in treating the inflammation of acne,
while insulin is also reported to have worked in the same way. No big studies
have been done on the latter though, so proceed cautiously with this one.


Chromium supplements appeared to have worked according to one small
study, while Nicholas Perricone advises a strict diet in which dairy is almost
totally avoided in his controversial book, The Acne Prescription. He also
recommends topical applications of alpha lipoic acid. There was no strong
scientific evidence for Perricone’s theories until early in 2005 when a paper
was published detailing a link between acne and milk.

Research is now
being done on the use of lasers for the prevention of acne. Lasers have been
used to treat the scars left by really bad acne, but it is now realized that the
follicle sac from which the hair grows, as well as the sebaceous gland that
produces oil, can be burned away by the use of lasers. They can also be used to
kill the bacteria by inducing oxygen in them. But no one has yet come up with a
solution to the possible damage that the skin might suffer during these
operations, so this option is a long way off.

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