WHAT ARE BLACKHEADS
AND ACNE?
Blackheads, or Whiteheads are a type of Acne.
Acne is a hereditary condition brought on by hormonal
changes to our bodies that cause the oil glands within our skin pours
to secrete excessive oil.
Excessive oil (sebum), along with dead skin cells, bind together
to create a blockage in the pore.
As a result of the blockage the pour becomes irritated.
Affected by the irritation, the pore becomes swollen, and inflamed.
Here’s more detail on how Acne occurs:
Our skin works constantly to renew itself. Our sebaceous glands produce sebum,
the oil that keeps the skin moist and pliable. As our skin renews itself,
older skin cells die and slough off.
When skin cells are shed by our body unevenly, they tend to clump together
with sebum (natural skin oil) to form a plug.
This plug (blockage) starts to occur one to three weeks before it appears just below or on
the skin's surface.
The acne process starts deep inside the sebaceous hair follicles, which are the tiny opening
we commonly call pores.
Blackheads or whiteheads a type of Acne, typically appear on our
bodies, on the face, neck, chest, back and shoulders,
which are the areas of our skin where the largest number
of our bodies functional oil glands reside.
Typical Acne Lesions Are Comedones, Nodules, Papules,
Pustules, And
Inflammatory Cysts
Non-inflamed 'sebaceous cysts' are called epidermoid cysts, although not a constant, they can occur either in alignment with acne or alone.
* Whiteheads - These are smaller pimples or bumps that stay just under the surface of the skin.
* Blackheads - These dark pimples or zits as they may commonly be referred to.. rise directly to the skin's
surface.
* Papules - Are often pinkish appearing bumps *
Pustules - These type of pimples are often red at the bottom and have pus filled heads on top.
* Nodules - These are large, often painful, solid boil -like
pimples embedded deep in the skin. This type of acne signal levels of inflammation or infection deep inside of the hair follicles
* Cysts - Painful, pus-filled pimples that lay in the skin.. These are thick masses (lumps) that form beneath the surface of the skin, which are created by the buildup of secretions near the roots within hair follicles, can
easily cause scarring.
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