Types of acne
Posted in Understanding Pimples on 18. Jan, 2010
After I wrote my first post on what pimple is, I think it’s time for me to write about types of acne. There are some types of acne, some of them you might have, it’s important to understand what kind of acne you have so you can take necessary steps to get rid of those annoying acne. I’ll write about this on two different posts, this post will discuss about Non-Inflammatory acne, next post will be talking about Inflammatory acne.
Ok, let’s go on to Non-Inflammatory acne. There are two types of acne you might already know: whiteheads and blackheads.
Whiteheads
One can experienced whitehead when a pore of your skin is completely blocked, and this will left sebum (oil), bacteria, and dead skin cells trapped. Whiteheads have a quicker life cycle that blackheads. This whiteheads may show up as tiny white spot but sometimes it can also very small that naked eyes will not spot it. So when you see that your skin is clear from acne, check again.
Blackheads
Blackheads occur when only partial pore of your skin blocked, this condition will result black spot on your skin. This condition is caused by slow draining of sebum, bacteria, and dead skin cells to surface. Blackheads takes longer time to heal, because those trapped contents need some time to drain to the surface.
These two types of acne can heal itself, cause it will release its content to surface, and when it’s done the acne will also disappear. But it also can be change into inflammatory acne form when the follicle wall rupture. This rupture can be caused by touching the acne with your dirty hands. That’s why it’s recommended not touch those acne.
That’s for the first article of types of acne articles, next I’ll write about Inflammatory acne.
Source: acne.org
