February 24, 2010

Best Acne Medication – Types of Antibiotics For Acne That Work Very Well

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Meet the antibiotics: They are basically of two types – topical and oral antibiotics. Oral antibiotics were the first to be discovered. They included tetracycline and a host of other related anti-acne medications that you had to swallow for full effect. There are also erythromycin, oxytetracycline, doxycycline minocycline, and lymecycline. In the UK, the off-label trimethoprim is a bit more popular.

Topical antibiotics came shortly after and are often and largely used alongside the oral acne medications. You had to run them on your skin in the infected areas for them to clear your skin, and you had to do that about 2 times a day. Erythromycin is also a common name amongst topical antibiotics, as is tetracycline. Other trade names in this genre are stiemycin and clindamycin. They appear to have about the same effects as the oral types, but they have one advantage – they do not cause you stomach aches as side effects, which makes them better in a sense.

There is a catch, though. In recent times, a very resistant type of acne has been seen more and more frequently. These are Propionibacterium acnes (P. acnes), and they appear to be a lot more resistant to antibiotics. Often, they have been found to bounce back just days after topical antibiotics are supposed to have done their job, and short week later, if you have been using the oral type of medication.

But until you have Propionibacterium acnes, you can be confident that your acnes, the lesions, and the scarring that result are as good as history if you stick to your antibiotics.