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Isramom8
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 Tue, Jan 12 2010, 6:17 am
What is normally prescribed? The skin doctor I sent my teen to wants to put her on pills for half a year! My daughter says this is common. I'm not surprised, but I'm not allowing this. It's just a typical case of acne! For that to pump hormones into a healthy kid? Isn't there a prescription cream or something less invasive than pills, stronger than over the counter creams, but mild enough to be safe?
In the meantime I bought her some natural sulfer (or tar?) soap at a lovely Yarden shop.
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Newsie
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Tue, Jan 12 2010, 7:41 am
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I don't know how bad your daughter's acne is- and I understand your desire to be natural. but for me, being on pills in high school and being able to clear my terrible complexion meant a lot for my self esteem. It's hard enough being a teenager, if you have bad acne, it's even worse
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Yocheved84
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Tue, Jan 12 2010, 9:29 am
What pills is he talking about? Can he prescribe creams instead e.g. (::walking over to the cabinet now: Erythromycin for night-time? For the day-time, can she use the Proactive knock-off from Duane Reade? Both worked for me.
If those don't work, give the pills a try. You don't want her to have permanent scarring and as OP above said, she'll feel so much better about herself. It's important @ that age...
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ice cream sundae
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Tue, Jan 12 2010, 9:39 am
As a teen I was on retin A and a host of skin treatments including Mary Kay, Mario Badescu, and others.
All the above worked while I was using them but once I stopped the acne came back.
What I found that helped was going off of milk completely and getting to sleep on time. Getting to bed on time made a huge difference. Of course, due to hormones I still have occassional breakouts but my skin is clear and I am not using any skin care products, other than a cream I have for the occassional breakouts.
Pm me if you need more info.
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amother
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Tue, Jan 12 2010, 12:18 pm
Did your dermatologist say he'd put her on BC pills? Or antibiotics? Not the same thing!
I had pretty good success with a topical antibiotic lotion carried in something called Vehicle/N. Basically antibiotic dissolved in a bottle of some alcoholic-smelling liquid, applied like a roll-on deodorant.
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chocolate moose
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Tue, Jan 12 2010, 12:26 pm
What kind of pills? Accutane ? Oral antibiotic ?
My dd tried EVERYTHING.
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pina colada
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Wed, Jan 13 2010, 12:16 pm
I too noticed an almost complete improvement when I stopped using milk/ milk products.
The ask the dr. column in mishpacha magazine mentioned that a while ago.
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NativeMom
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Wed, Jan 13 2010, 12:20 pm
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Has she tried benzamycin (Erythromycin) or benzacline-which is a clindamycin benzoyl peroxide gel?
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ianaii
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Wed, Jan 13 2010, 3:36 pm
I had pretty terrible acne when I was in High school and the only thing that really cleared me up was BC pills.
It was worth it.
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