Acne, commonly known as acne, acne, more people call it acne, which occurs in young men and women on 15-30. It is a chronic inflammatory disease of hair follicles and sebaceous glands, characterized by acne (white head and black head), papules, pustules, nodules, cysts and scars. Common in the face, especially the forehead, cheeks, chin, but also in the chest, shoulders, shoulders and other parts, often accompanied by sebum overflow. Because acne is often harmful to the face, people feel pain, especially female patients.
Modern medical research has confirmed that acne is caused by excessive androgen secretion in patients, which stimulates sebaceous glands to secrete excessive sebum, so the skin of acne patients is greasy. Because of excessive sebum retention, acne is formed, which promotes bacterial reproduction, increases fatty acids, stimulates keratinization of hair follicle cavity, blocks hair follicle cavity and causes inflammation, thus forming acne. Severe cases have scars after recovery.
Because "acne" is caused by endocrine system disorder, it is quite stubborn. Although there are many methods of Chinese and western medicine treatment, there is still no satisfactory method. Often cured for a long time, recurrent attacks, people are very distressed.
Because the onset of "adolescence" is closely related to the curative effect and many factors in life, we are here to talk to you about this "annoying acne" from the perspective of life, especially diet nutrition, because diet is the basic method to prevent and treat acne.
Easy-to-induce factors Dietary factors Too much grease in greasy food is an important cause of acne attack. From the above description, we can know that androgen is the main factor causing acne. Sebum is the fuse to ignite acne, and the oil in the diet will stimulate the secretion of sebum, so a high-fat diet will increase the incidence of acne. An interesting observation points out that people living in primitive tribes rarely see acne when they live on traditional food. Once they change to a western-style diet, they have more chances to get acne.
High-sugar food High-sugar food will make the human body's metabolism vigorous and sebaceous glands secrete more, thus making acne constantly.
A large part of the causes of acne caused by fishy food are related to allergies. Things with fishy hair often cause allergies, leading to aggravation of the disease. At the same time, things with fishy hair tend to enlarge the chronic inflammation of sebaceous glands, which is difficult to cure. Clinically, it is often seen that the acne that was about to fade after eating fishy hair "comes back", and the small acne has become a big acne, and many small acne will appear on the originally bright skin.
Spicy and irritating products These foods are hot and easy to get angry when eaten. Patients with acne are hot inside, so eating these foods is undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire.
Tonics are mostly hot products, which aggravate people's internal heat and are more likely to induce acne. Some parents are afraid that their developing children are not nutritious enough, so they try their best to make up for it. In fact, this is a wrong approach.
Other reasons, mental factors and psychological factors can not be ignored. Because mental stress and anxiety can cause endocrine disorders, lead to an increase in androgen secretion by adrenal glands, and also induce or aggravate acne.
Poor facial skin cleanliness is also a factor that aggravates acne. Poor facial cleanliness is easy to cause pore blockage, which is not conducive to sebum loss, causing inflammation and aggravating acne.
Strengthening confidence and persisting in treating acne are "by-products" in the development of human youth. The course of disease is long and the curative effect is slow. Generally, it takes more than half a year to achieve satisfactory results. Therefore, you should strengthen your confidence, actively cooperate with doctors and insist on treatment, which will be well controlled. After puberty, most of them will recover naturally.
Avoid mental stress, it is not advisable to worry about this disease. It is very important to maintain an optimistic and confident attitude towards the treatment of this disease.
Reasonable skin cleaning acne patients are often oily skin. You can usually wash your face with warm water and soap, or you can temporarily remove excess oil from your skin with facial cleanser and shrink water. Wash the affected area three times a day. Acne patients should use water-soluble liquid cosmetics and avoid oily or powdery cosmetics. General cosmetics should be used 20-30 minutes after topical acne drugs.
Combine work and rest to ensure adequate sleep.
Dietary advice Basic dietary principles Basic dietary principles are also principles that acne patients should abide by. What I am talking about here is mainly diet balance and total calorie restriction.
Try to find your sensitive food. For some patients, the onset of this disease is obviously related to the intake of certain foods, so please pay attention to finding out the food varieties that make your face acne. These foods may be one of the following incentives, or they may be unique to you.
Avoid high-fat foods Chinese medicine believes that the cause of acne is caused by fat and sweet food. High-fat food will produce a lot of heat energy, which will aggravate internal heat. So this kind of food, such as lard, butter, sheep oil, cream, fat, pig brain, sheep brain, cow brain, pig liver, pig kidney, chicken liver, egg yolk, etc., must be avoided.
Avoid anything that smells like fish. Things with fishy hair will aggravate acne. Therefore, things with fishy hair must be avoided, especially seafood, such as eel, shrimp, crab, elephant skin fish, hairtail and so on. Shellfish food is also easy to produce, such as clams, mussels and so on. Seafood is more delicious than seafood. You can try it. If you are sure what causes acne, you can avoid eating it. Hot products in meat are also hair products, such as mutton and dog meat.
Avoid high-sugar foods. After eating high-sugar food, the secretion of cortical glands will increase. Therefore, high-sugar foods, such as white sugar, rock sugar, brown sugar, glucose, maltose, chocolate, milk candy, fruit candy, canned fruit, ice cream, jam, condensed milk and various high-sugar products, must be avoided.
Avoid spicy and irritating products. This kind of food is easy to get angry after eating, and patients should avoid spicy and irritating foods, such as pepper, hot sauce, spicy oil, cinnamon, ginger, onion, leek, onion, mustard, fresh and spicy powder, etc.
Avoid tonic. Tonics can easily aggravate people's internal heat after eating, so supplements such as ginseng, astragalus, velvet antler and placenta hominis cannot be taken.
Avoid alcohol and alcohol will aggravate acne, so be sure to ban alcohol, especially white wine.
You should know that vitamin A can promote epithelial cell regeneration, prevent hair follicle hyperkeratosis and reduce the occurrence of acne. Some data show that vitamin A is effective in experimental treatment of acne and can be cured within a few weeks. But this is on the premise of taking a very high dose, and the role of safe dose is not significant. However, high doses of vitamin A can cause side effects, so the dose of vitamin A is usually strictly controlled and can only be taken under the guidance of a doctor. In view of this situation, some people use vitamin E and vitamin A at the same time to solve the problem, because vitamin E can slow down the decomposition speed of vitamin A. ..
Even so, I don't want readers to take vitamin A themselves, even if it is safe, unless you have a doctor who recognizes this treatment to guide you to take it. I mention it here only to give you such a message. Usually you can eat more vegetables rich in vitamin A or carotene, such as day lily, carrot, shepherd's purse, spinach and so on. More varieties will be recommended to you in the second part. Life suggests washing your face three times a day. Never squeeze acne. Do not use oily and powdery cosmetics. Avoid greasy, fishy hair and spicy food. Eat more soy products, fresh vegetables and fruits. Please take vitamin B6 to keep your stool unobstructed. 0.5% zinc sulfate solution is a good choice, 30 ml medicinal diet three times a day-taking vitamin B6 is the key to treat acne. Some clinical reports indicate that vitamin B6 supplementation can relieve premenstrual discomfort. Including sudden acne, for example, 106 young women took 50 mg of vitamin B6 every day before and during menstruation, and after one week, 72% were cured. The reason is that B vitamins participate in the metabolism of sugar and fat and can regulate the secretion of sebaceous glands. You can usually eat more foods rich in these vitamins.
The effect of mineral zinc on acne has been reported at home and abroad. As early as 1983, Mr. Kong Xiangrui from Baosteel Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Second Medical College told everyone that zinc is a good medicine for acne. Unfortunately, so far, doctors in many hospitals have not prescribed zinc for acne patients.
Zinc is an essential nutrient for human body. Detecting the zinc content in human body is helpful for the diagnosis and prognosis of many diseases. Zinc can also treat many intractable diseases, so zinc is known as "the spark of life". The effect of treating acne is that zinc may have a direct effect on sebum metabolism. Studies have proved that zinc deficiency in normal people will lead to acne. Therefore, zinc can directly or indirectly dissipate inflammation, reduce the secretion of sebaceous glands, improve the immune state and metabolism of the body, accelerate cell regeneration and repair wounds, and make acne better and better.
According to the surveys in Middle East countries, North and South America and Europe, the zinc intake of people can not meet the recommended standards, and there is a general tendency of zinc deficiency. So there is no need to worry about taking the right amount of zinc, so you can use it with confidence. Oral zinc sulfate solution is the best after meals. The dosage is 0.5% zinc sulfate solution, 30ml each time, three times a day.
After selenium acne infection, it will form a white abscess. Selenium supplementation seems to be particularly effective in the treatment of pustular acne, which may be due to its anti-infective effect. Of course, the materials suggested in this paper do not further explain the principle. Because selenium and vitamin E are closely related, this material suggests that selenium and vitamin E should be used together. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "acne" is caused by lung damp-heat, toxin and wind-evil stagnation of skin, so traditional Chinese medicine often uses products that clear lung and stomach heat, eliminate dampness and detoxify. Commonly used drugs are as follows:
Angelica dahurica has been described in many ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine to treat acne, such as "Angelica dahurica, with strong temperature, is a medicine for expelling wind and removing dampness in Yangming meridian." Therefore, it can cure all head and face diseases of Yangming ","Angelica dahurica is the leader, which can cure sores and abscess, expel pus and promote granulation ". The prescription of traditional Chinese medicine for acne is angelica dahurica, which has a good effect.
Sichuan pepper is a kind of pepper used for cooking and seasoning, which is irritating and toxic. It contains phosphorus, iron, kaempferol, volatile oil, phytosterol, unsaturated fatty acid and other ingredients, and has the effects of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, eliminating dampness and killing insects. It is often used to treat wind-cold-dampness arthralgia and abdominal cold pain. In addition, it has the effects of relieving depression, eliminating dampness, peeling skin and killing muscle, and can be used to treat acne.
Coix seed is also called Coix seed. Sweet, light and slightly cold, it is a commonly used medicine for blindly infiltrating dampness, clearing away lung heat and discharging pus. It contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamin B 1 and other nutrients, and is often used to treat damp arthralgia, edema, lung pain, intestinal carbuncle, stranguria and leucorrhea. It can also be used for diet therapy of acne. Medicinal diet can cook porridge.
Eriobotrya leaves are commonly used to treat cough and asthma caused by lung heat. Here, acne can be treated by clearing lung heat, which can achieve certain curative effect.
Prunella vulgaris is a commonly used medicine for removing depression and clearing liver. The main indications are liver meridian fever, such as red eyes, swelling and pain, dizziness and headache, lymph node tuberculosis, acne and so on. Contains water-soluble inorganic salts, mainly potassium chloride, which have inhibitory effects on many bacteria.
Kelp is salty and cold, which has the effect of resolving phlegm and eliminating gallbladder. Its ingredients contain protein, alkaloids and amino acids. In addition, it also contains laminarin, iodine, carotene, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2 and other substances. It can be used for the treatment of cervicitis. Can be used for treating acne and helping acne to dissipate.
Gypsum Gypsum is an ore of calcium sulfate, which is sweet in taste and cold in nature. It is a basic medicine for clearing heat in traditional Chinese medicine, and its components include calcium sulfate, magnesium sulfate and ferric sulfate. Gypsum is often used to treat heat-related diseases, such as toothache, headache and gum pain caused by excessive stomach fire. Cough and asthma due to lung heat, eczema, acne, ulcer, etc.
Medicinal diet barley mung bean soup mung bean 20 grams, barley 50 grams. Boil the two materials into porridge, mix with appropriate amount of rock sugar, and take it twice a day. This recipe has the function of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis.
Eriobotrya japonica leaf 10g, chrysanthemum 6g, gypsum 15g, and japonica rice 50g. First, decoct the first three herbs in water to get juice, and then add japonica rice to cook porridge, one dose a day. This recipe has the function of clearing away heat accumulated in lung and stomach.
Kelp, mung bean and almond soup kelp 15g, mung bean 10g, sweet almond 9g, rose 6g (wrapped in gauze) and appropriate amount of brown sugar. Cook the above things together, remove roses, drink soup, eat mung beans, kelp and sweet almonds, one dose a day. This recipe has the effect of removing blood stasis and resolving hard mass.
Prunella vulgaris honey porridge 20 grams, 50 grams of japonica rice, the right amount of honey. First, decoct the Prunella Spica to get juice, then cook it with japonica rice into porridge, and add honey to take it, one dose a day. This recipe has the function of cooling blood and dredging fu organs.
Shuang Ren porridge barley 30g, sweet almond, seaweed and kelp 9g each. Decoct that last three herbs in wat, removing the residues, adding Coicis semen, and cook into porridge. Has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, resolving phlegm and removing blood stasis.
Peach kernel lotus leaf porridge: 9g peach kernel, 9g hawthorn, 9g Fritillaria, half a lotus leaf, 65438+ 0,000ml water, fried to 600ml, and 60g polished rice after slag removal. Has that effect of clearing yang, promote blood circulation and removing blood stasis.