Eating spicy face acne is considered acne, you can take general treatment, topical medication, systemic medication, phototherapy and other treatment modalities, treatment.
1. General treatment: Eating too spicy and irritating food can easily stimulate the skin to grow acne, then we should improve the diet, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits in daily life, avoid eating spicy and irritating food or greasy sweets, to reduce acne, also need to pay attention to skin cleaning, reduce sebum accumulation.
2. Topical medication: If the local redness, swelling and pain symptoms are not obvious, you can use topical retinoic acid drugs, such as adapalene gel and tazarotene gel; if the inflammation is obvious, you can use topical antibiotics, such as mupirocin ointment and erythromycin ointment, etc. You can also use azelaic acid cream, which can dissolve the pimples and reduce the hyperpigmentation.
3. Systemic medication: for severe acne with obvious inflammatory reaction, oral antibacterial treatment, such as minocycline, doxycycline, etc.; more severe lesions, oral isotretinoin treatment can also be used, but this drug has teratogenic side effects, women of childbearing age and pregnant women are prohibited; violaceous acne, oral glucocorticosteroid treatment, such as prednisone.
4. Phototherapy: mild acne, can take red light and other phototherapy irradiation treatment; moderate to severe acne, can take strong pulse light, reduce inflammation, relieve symptoms.
It is recommended that patients go to the dermatology department of a regular hospital in a timely manner, and standardize the treatment under the guidance of the doctor. The medication should be used according to the doctor’s instructions, not blindly self-medication.