What is ACNE? Why a lot of people specially the teenagers are usually affected by it? These are the questions that were asked by my teenage daughter to me. Which embarrassedly caught me flatfooted and gave me a hard time to answer her satisfactorily. So with vengeance, even it is already too late, I still decided to research about ACNE and wrote a blog about it in order for my own reference and maybe for your reference too.

Acne Vulgaris according to wikipedia is an inflammatory disease of the skin, caused by changes in the pilosebaceous units (skin structures consisting of a hair follicle and its associated sebaceous gland). Acne lesions are commonly referred to as pimples, spots, plukes or zits.

The condition is most common in puberty. It is considered an abnormal response to normal levels of the male hormone testosterone. The response for most people diminishes over time and acne thus tends to disappear, or at least decrease, after one reaches his or her early twenties. There is, however, no way to predict how long it will take for it to disappear entirely, and some individuals will continue to suffer from acne decades later, into their thirties and forties and even beyond.[1] Acne affects a large percentage[specify] of humans at some stage in life.

The term acne comes from a corruption of the Greek άκμή (acme in the sense of a skin eruption) in the writings of Aëtius Amidenus. The vernacular term bacne or backne is often used to indicate acne found specifically on one's back.

Other Source: ACNE RESOURCE CENTER