Acne in Different Languages
What Exactly Acne Is?
Health and Skin Issue for Teens
Facts About Acne
Understanding Acne and Pimples
Acne in Different Languages
Other names for Acne: Acne also known as pimples or zit (common English), Acne vulgaris (scientific binomial name), fenci or cuochuang (Mandarin / Traditional Chinese / Simplified Chinese), espinillas (Spanish), keel munhaase (Hindi), hubb alshshabab (Arabic), acne (Portuguese), brana (Bengali), ugrevaya bolezn or akne or ugri (Russian), nikibi (Japanese), phunsi or phinasi (Punjabi), akne (German), kukul (Javanese), (Wu / Shanghainese), jerawat (Malay / Indonesian), motimalu (Telugu), mun trung ca or mun (Vietnamese), jwachang (Korean), acne (French), purala or murum (Marathi), mukapparu or mugaparu (Tamil), muhaase (Urdu), sivilce (Turkish), acne (Italian), (Yue / Cantonese), siw (Thai), khila (Gujarati), (Persian), tradzik or pryszczyk (Polish), (Pashto), modave (Kannada), mukhakkuru (Malayalam), jarawat (Sundanese), kuraje or ban ni da mugu (Hausa), brana (Odia / Oriya), (Burmese), Byrop or akHe (Ukrainian), irore (Yoruba), bojama or husnbuzar (Uzbek), (Sindhi), acnee (Romanian), dauwworm or puistje or puist (Dutch), akmi (Greek), mukhase (Nepali), tarunya pitika (sanskrit), (Unani).
What Exactly Acne Is?
A chronic inflammation of the pilosebaceous glands (hair follicles that contain large oil producing cells) of the face, upper arms and upper chest. Acne is a skin disease that affects the follicles, or pores, that cover your face and body. The sebaceous glands are at their most active during puberty, and it is a time when the excess oils can block skin pores and lead to bacterial infection with pus filled pimples, small cysts, and blackheads. Typically, acne starts in the early teens and usually disappears by the mid-twenties, although a tendency to blemishes can be a lifelong problem for some people.
Health and Skin Issue for Teens
Acne is the most common skin disorder. Adult onset acne typically appears in people who are thirty and older; it is often caused by an allergic reaction to cosmetics or food, although some cases are related to menstruation. Rosacea, an acne like condition that mostly affects people over age thirty, begins as a persistent flush on the cheeks and nose that may cause the nose to become thickened, red, and tender, especially in men. The majority of patients recover between the ages 20 and 30 years. But it is still common in men over 30 years. In women, it rarely lasts beyond the early thirties and is normally worse before each menstrual period. The diseases causes a great deal of embarrassment at an age when people tend to be sensitive about personal appearance.
Facts About Acne
Newborn babies do sometimes get a form of acne called infantile acne. Infantile acne usually appears in the first few weeks after birth and can persist for several months. Although pustules may be present, it is usually just comedones and papules on the cheeks and chin. Anything more severe or long-lasting than this needs investigation and treatment, as there are some conditions in which babies start to produce hormones. It has been suggested that if you get acne as a baby, even if for only a short time, when you are older you might develop a more persistent type of acne. This could be an early warning to get treatment at the first sign of spots appearing in later years.
Understanding Acne and Pimples
As most people are aware, hormones play a significant role in acne. Normally, the body produces sebum, an oily lubricant, and secretes it through sebaceous glands to the skin. This lubricant is necessary to protect the skin from the elements and to keep it moist. During adolescence and other times of hormonal change, fluctuating hormones change this process and create several conditions that are likely to produce acne. For one, sebum production increases, and the oil, instead of passing harmlessly through the glands, hardens and clogs up the glandular canals. As a result, a red bump, a pimple, appears on the skin. Second, there is also increased production of keratin, a protective protein that covers the skin. Third, the same hormones cause an increase in the number of sebaceous glands, so there are more opportunities for acne to develop. Acne is an extremely complex disease with elements of pathogenesis involving defects in epidermal keratinization, androgen secretion, sebaceous function, bacterial growth, inflammation, and immunity. In the past 50 years, much has been worked out, and we now have a fairly detailed understanding of the events that result in an acne pimple, although there is also much left to be discovered.