Acne
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Acne affects about 50 million people every year. For most of us, it's something we've had to deal with at some point in our lives and it was short-lived, causing some anxiety. For others, acne is severely resistant and long lasting, which can have profound physiological and psychological effects.
In this episode, we'll comb through the various myths, general management tips, topical treatment options and discuss how diet affects your patient. We will also go through the difference between mild to moderate and moderate to severe acne.
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| 0:00.0 | Acne effects about 50 million people every year, |
| 0:02.8 | according to the American Academy of Dermatology, |
| 0:05.0 | with treatments costing more than $3 billion annually. |
| 0:08.4 | That's right, if they can get Justin Bieber to do advertisements, |
| 0:11.8 | you know it's something serious. |
| 0:14.0 | The American Academy of Germanology also notes that acne cases have been increasing in females, |
| 0:18.9 | in age 30 and older. |
| 0:20.9 | While it can be easy to brush it off as a vanity issue, the American Academy of |
| 0:25.2 | Dermatology and this host calls the potential negative physiological and |
| 0:29.4 | psychological effects profound and if anyone has ever experienced acne they can likely attest to the same thing. |
| 0:35.0 | I myself and my teenage years struggle with it a lot and ended up having to take isotretinone. |
| 0:40.0 | Acne is something we all have had to deal with at some point in our lives. |
| 0:45.0 | For many of us, it was short-lived, caused some anxiety, |
| 0:48.0 | perhaps before a date or some important event, |
| 0:50.0 | and if it was a 1990s high school prom movie, then it happened the night before. |
| 0:55.0 | We've all heard various myths about the right way to treat acne or perhaps the wrong way. |
| 1:00.0 | Every culture, every family has their own way to handle acne. |
| 1:03.4 | If you remember watching Big Frat Greek wedding, Tula's father believed in two things. |
| 1:07.8 | The second, which is most relevant to us, is that he believed that any ailment from psoriasis to poison ivy could be cured with |
| 1:16.2 | Windex. |
| 1:17.2 | Even in history, acne has been present although it was not always taken seriously or even |
| 1:21.9 | treated correctly. |
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