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Many young women who are looking for acne treatment and birth control methods tend to choose birth control pills to kill two birds with a stone.Do you have been surprised that some birth control pills can be used to control acne? Birth control pills can control the sebum significantly to be produced.
How does acne arise?
Acne which is a chronic disorder of the hair follicles and sebaceous glands is characterized by black head, pimple outbreaks, infected abscesses and cysts. When inflammation of the sebaceous glands and hair follicles of the skin producing pimples and pustules, acne coming.
When the production of sebum which produced by Sebaceous glands (fatty glands found in hair follicles throughout the body that secrete oil into the hair and surrounding skin and they emit oil) found on many parts of the body increases, it blocks the the sebaceous glands which makes sebum filling the gland into balloon shape. If the production of sebum decreases so are the acne and vice-versa.
How birth control pills work on acne?
Birth control pills control androgen hormones which control the excess sebum production in the body considerably. When androgen hormones increases in sebaceous glands, it's producing more sebum and so it appears in the form of acne. This activity is greatly observed in teenagers and young adults especially between the ages of 12 and 24, when they experience various physical changes.
There are mainly two types of birth control pills. Progestin Only Pill (POP) and Combination Pill (having progestin and estrogen hormones). These two pills come in different combination level of progestin and estrogen hormones. Estrogens may be in the form of ethinyl estradiol that controls the level of androgen hormones in the sebaceous glands.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved low-dose birth control pill Ortho Tri-cyclen to be used for acne treatment in 1997. It can reduce acne to appear significantly by controlling the production of androgen hormones in sebaceous glands
It is certainly not advisable for sexually inactive and teenagers to use them as the medium of acne treatment although birth control pill work effectively on acne treatment.
The above article is for general information on possible acne treatment by birth control pills and should not be taken as medical advice. If it is so, please consult your doctor or physician for treatment purpose.