cure acne with antibiotics
I was taking antibiotics for acne for over 1.5 years. Some of it
worked really well, others didn't. My dermatologist never really
explained that this was an abuse of antibiotics (but now I read
articles all the time of docs complaining about this) and that I was
risking my health by doing this. What happened was he switched me to
a different antibiotic and I ended up becoming very ill. My new
doctors now are comfortable saying that the antibiotics I was taking
for acne triggered that illness, which ended up being diagnosed as
colitis. I'm still sick over one yhear later and went through hell.
Nobody knows exactly what causes ulcerative colitis, but again my docs
feel for me the antibiotics were the trigger. I would do anything to
go back in time and slap those pills out of my hands!!!! I know acne
is a terrible thing to live with, believe me I know, but in hindsight
*it was not worth it.* It is not worth my health; it was not worth
all that time I lost to being sick; it was not worth the pain and
fear.
Plus antibiotics will never cure acne -- it will only control it as
long as she takes it. So it's just not a good solution -- although it
is one dermatologists push on people because it's an *easy* solution.
My opinion, which is just that but I feel so strongly about it as you
now know why, is to have your daughter stop taking those antibiotics
immediately. Taking something that affects your whole system for acne
is not a fair trade. Even if she doesn't end up like me (and I've
never been sick before that!) , she's at risk for yeast infections,
things like that. There are topical creams she can use on her face to
get rid of the acne. I use a cream called "differin" on my face
that works pretty well and doesn't dry it out and for big outbreaks I
have something that is stronger. I know some docs will say diet
doesn't affect anything, but when I was off of Coca-Cola and junk food
and drank a lot of water, my outbreaks were a lot less. So that's
worth a try, too.