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Adult Acne Blog - thebroadroom.net: October 2005
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, nurse, nutritionist, herbalist, or otherwise medically trained person.
I am an ordinary person who has suffered from adult acne since 1995 and have found no solution to my acne through conventional medicine.
Oh yeah...
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Friday, October 28, 2005
at 12:38 PM (Pacific)
...about the white tea.
I'm a horribly lazy person. The white tea (for some bizarre reason, only Celestial Seasonings white tea seemed to make a difference in my skin) does work. I don't know why. Drinking any other kind of tea, from green tea to other brands of white tea, does not produce results for me, at least the teas I've tried.
That said, I haven't been bothering drinking it. It's delicious (I'm a non-tea-drinker)...it's the same price as Celestial Seasonings teas are anyway, so it's as affordable. I'm just lazy. If it turned out to be a miracle cure, I suppose I'd bother, but it isn't, it just makes my skin look better...noticeably better, but not a miracle.
Update
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 12:12 PM (Pacific)
I realize it's been a while...
Not much in the way of breakthroughs. I've concluded that adult acne is caused by allergic reaction to something. The basis for this conclusion...
One is that the "handful" (five, actually) of adults with acne that I've ever heard of--who figured out what was causing their acne, wholly or in part--were all allergic to something. One was allergic to parabens. I'd never heard of parabens...I googled it. Lots of info on the Net.
The second wrote me and told me she took a battery of allergy tests, and came up with a list of foods to which she was allergic.
The third went to summer camp once. She didn't like the food, so she ended up eating salads the entire summer. Her skin cleared up. When she returned home from camp and resumed her normal diet, the acne returned.
Fourth...someone on our board, The Lipstick Page Forums, stated that eating meat caused her breakouts.
Fifth...well, there is me. :) I've greatly reduced my acne...to the point that, generally speaking, I don't get pimples at all, just clogged pores...by changing my birth control pill and changing my diet. (There is more information about this in previous posts.)
It makes sense that the vast majority of adult acne cases that I've read about on beauty boards, which are international, are concentrated in the U.S. and Canada...if you accept that it's caused by allergies. There are substances that are local, that we are being exposed to, that not everyone in the world is exposed to.
Also...why now? Aren't 40 million Americans living without health insurance? (Or whatever that statistic is.) The likelihood that an uninsured person will pay out of pocket for a battery of allergy tests...given that uninsured people hardly go to the doctor anyway...is slim. Many "insured" Americans have HMO's (which involves more paying out of pocket) and half-assed insurance (ditto), again there is the likelihood that the person will never be tested thoroughly for allergies.
Also...genetic engineering. It's likely we are being exposed to substances in ways and amounts that are, in a word, unnatural. Even if you pinpointed your allergies, could you really avoid those substances in genetically engineered foods?
Also...corn. There's high fructose corn syrup in every processed product on the supermarket shelf. What if you were allergic to corn?
Anyhow...so you read it here first. :D
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