Why You Should Not Use Antibiotics For Acne Treatment
Have you considered clearing up acne with antibiotics? Is your acne particularly stubborn and hasn’t responded to typical topical interventions such as benzyl peroxide? Then you may want to consider antibiotic topical creams. Warning! Before you take this step, however, make sure that you’ve done everything else to correct hygienic problems that can aggravate acne, such as not washing your skin often or properly, or even being overly aggressive when you wash your skin, which can further aggravate existing breakouts and cause new ones. Your daily hygiene should consist of gentle washing with mild cleansers, perhaps those specifically geared for those with acne problems, and using gentle rubbing and patting motions rather than aggressive scrubbing.
If you have taken these steps, however, and acne is not getting any better, then maybe the time to consider a topical antibiotic cream. You may also consider going to your dermatologist and having him or her prescribe oral or injectable antibiotics, which are taken internally. These are systemic and affect your whole body, rather than simply affecting the acne that occurs on your skin.
Those antibiotics that are taken internally do have side effects that can be dangerous, so this is why a physician must prescribe them. Many people are allergic to various types of antibiotics, and your doctor should know about these allergies before he or she prescribes one to you, since their side effects can be everything from unpleasant to life-threatening. In addition, you must take the full course of antibiotics prescribed you, since not doing so will render them ineffective; in a worst-case scenario, they may even cause you to become resistant to antibiotic treatment, since not completing a cycle of antibiotics can cause “superbugs” to appear and further risk severe infection that can no longer be treated by antibiotics.
If you are allergic to a particular antibiotic but you did not know this, you should watch for symptoms of allergy, such as hives, wheezing, or nausea. If you experience any of these symptoms, contact your doctor immediately.
Remember that even though they are relatively innocuous in society today, antibiotics are serious drugs and can be very, very harmful, even deadly, if not used properly. If you decide to take them orally, you must treat them as you would any other medication and follow doctor’s orders carefully.
Because antibiotics taken internally systemically address every infection in the body, they do, indeed, clear most serious cases of acne. However, they also affect every other organ in your body because they are taken internally, and therefore cannot be taken long-term, in most cases. This is because not only do antibiotics kill “bad” bacteria, such as that which causes your acne, but they also kill “good” bacteria, such as that which occurs naturally in your intestinal tract. For this reason, they must be carefully monitored and used for as short a time as possible.
In short, taking antibiotics internally for the short-term to clear up a very severe case of acne can help you get a jump start on solving a very painful and embarrassing situation. However, once the course of antibiotics has been run, you should continue with good hygiene and good dietary and lifestyle practices, in order to keep your acne at bay.
It is because the seriousness of the effects of antibiotics that I have decided an alternative.
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