Self-medication is the major problem in treatment of acne. This acne awareness month, lets pledge to #stopselfmedicationinacne. If you are having acne, post acne scars or post acne dark spots then you must be thinking by seeing pictures of glam models getting millions of likes on social media that
- “Are my selfies still social media worthy”
- Answer is Absolutely Yes!
- Your pics are beautiful even with acne. And acne can’t take that away from you.
- But you need to ask few questions to yourself like –
- Are you helping your acne to get worse?
- Are you using Google to treat your acne self?
- Are you looking for instant cures in the news?
- Are you using grandma’s homemade lotion to treat your acne?
- Are you consulting your friends, social media and blogs to treat your acne self?
If answer to any one or more of the above question is yes then you indeed allowing acne and it sequel like dark spots, scars and social embarrassments to get worse
Alert! – Most of the over the counter (OTC) available creams for acne and dark spots contains potent steroid ingredients like Clobetasol, Betamethasone, Mometasone and many more which might give you temporary improvement for your problems but you may end up with paying a heavy toll for it in form of side effects like redness of skin, thinning, photosensitivity, stretch mark development, increased hair growth over site, worsening of acne and dark spots and become habitual for that cream. Today because of easy avaibility and rampant use of such creams dermatologists are seeing many of such cases. Treatment of such side effects is time consuming and exhaustive than treatment of acne without self-medications.
So what to do?
First you listen to camera and say you are beautiful always. Pic up your phone and fixed your appointment with qualified Dermatologist.
Dermatologists will help you:
- To prevent new breakouts and reduce your chance of developing scars and dark spots.
- To solve your questions or concerns about caring of acne prone skin.
- Get your glowing self-face back.
