Puberty acne develops from a fe-w simple steps. First, teenage acne occurs -when for some unkno-wn reason or combination of reasons, hair follicles, also kno-wn as pores, become blocked. Although the exact combination of reasons that pores become clogged may not be fully kno-wn, many contributing elements for teenagers and adults alike can include:

* genetics (-whether or not there is a history of acne problems and if so, to -what extent)
* hormones
* dietary and vitamin make up (or lack of /deficiency)
* stress related factors

other denominators in the development of puberty acne could include factors like ho-w your body normally rids itself of its dead skin cells. And influences that may be -working against this regularity. For example, climate and other environmental factors, overall body health at the time of the outbreak, and your hormones and their effect on your o-wn body's sebum production (especially for women).

Second, the normal dead skin cells that combine -with your body's natural sebum oil as it drains through the skin's surface become clogged in these blocked pores. This substance becomes some-what sticky, further clogging the passage-way.

Third, bacteria begins to gro-w around these clogged isas. As a normal reaction, your body's -white blood cells attack the bacteria, fighting it and pushing it out of the body.

And forth, the resulting gro-wths during this 14day to 21day battle is called microcomedones. Microcomedones turn into comedones, commonly referred to as blemishes, pimples or acne.

There is basically four types of puberty acne: -whiteheads, blackheads, pimples and nodules.

-whiteheads is -when the sebum (oil) and resulting bacteria is trapped belo-w the skin's surface and you can actually see a -white head appear above (or near popping out of) the skin.

Blackheads is -when the sebum and resulting bacteria is only partially trapped, slo-wly draining out the surface and turning black because of your skin's melanin or pigmentation. In the absence of either -white or blackhead is generally (but not al-ways) smaller pimples. And the often deeper, boillike lesions is referred to as nodules.

All forms of puberty acne can be mild, moderate or severe. Typically, mild puberty acne is visible in the form of -whiteheads and blackheads, sometimes pimples.

-with moderate puberty acne, more pimples and pustules is present on the face, some may appear on the back or chest.

And -with severe puberty acne, many nodules develop, often large and sore, over parts of the face, back, chest and other body isas. This type of acne can lead to scarring.

Actually, lesser cases of puberty acne have been follo-wed by scarring. So for those -with possible nodular acne, seeking advice from a healthcis provider as soon as possible is recommended.

A gender issue to note is that males more often have the severe form of acne rather than women, due to their hormones. And the isas -where they tend to break out most frequently is unfortunately more difficult to treat, the chest and back.

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