Acne-prone skin can be improved through skin care and dietary adjustments.
1. Skin care: Instructing patients to adopt a gentle skin care regimen will help improve tolerance to topical acne medications and avoid skin care products that can cause acne (acne formation).
Gentle skin care: Encourage patients to use gentle cleansers rather than soaps or scrubs – gentle cleansers (synthetic cleansers) have a pH of 5.5-7, which is close to the normal skin pH, whereas soaps have a pH of 9-10. synthetic cleansers with a lower pH minimize skin irritation and dryness.
Avoid scrubbing the skin vigorously: gentle massage with fingertips is sufficient to complete cleansing. Repeated mechanical trauma may aggravate inflammatory acne and induce new acne lesions.
Choose non-comedogenic skincare and cosmetics: Choosing products labeled “non-comedogenic” or less likely to “clog pores” can be helpful, but such labels are not regulated and may not be accurate, so choose carefully.
Avoid picking at acne lesions: Additional lesions caused by picking at acne may aggravate scarring.
2. Diet: The role of dietary changes in the treatment of acne vulgaris remains unclear. Some studies have confirmed the association of increased dairy intake and high glycemic load diets with acne vulgaris, and moderate reduction of dairy intake is recommended.
It is recommended that patients who wish to treat acne vulgaris should go to a regular hospital and follow the recommendations of their specialist.