Take Care Of Your Skin

This topic will be useful especially for women of course, as namely women tend to worry about their appearance more than men. Skin is the issue which worries lots of women. Every woman or a young girl wishes to have a soft tender skin. How to reach this effect?

First of all it would be necessary to remark that there are many skin disorders which lead to various health problems. Such a widely spread term as acne is known almost to everybody. Acne is mostly spread in young age, more concrete – in teenagers. However, sometimes this disease can appear in a more older age. What is acne in fact? Acne is a chronic skin disorder in which spots of a certain characteristic type develop on the skin of affected areas of the body. As a rule acne most commonly occurs on the face, but may develop on almost any part of the body, including particularly the back, chest and even genitals.

Speaking about the reasons of acne development it would be fair to say that there is no single, identifiable cause of acne. The issue is still being investigated. The main objective of this article is to offer certain guidelines for those people who already suffer from this unpleasant skin disorder.

The aim of any acne treatment should consist of effective approach to the problem. The medicine chosen for the acne treatment should be thoroughly discussed with a dermatologist and all its positive and negative sides should be clearly identified. The discussion runs about the minimizing all the possible side effects and complications such as acne scars for instance. It should be remembered that not all acne types require treatment with medications. Therefore before start any treatment it is necessary to talk to a health care provider.

The reasons for treating acne are the same as for any disease - to relieve the symptoms and eliminate the physical signs of the disease, to prevent complications arising and ultimately to cure the disease. In the case of acne, the physical signs of acne are the spots on the skin, the symptoms of acne are the itchiness and irritation caused by the spots and any accompanying emotional disturbance, while the complications include the development of cystic acne, the formation of acne scars and the severe psychiatric disturbance seen in acne dysmorphia. Whether it is appropriate to talk about curing acne is really a semantic argument, a patient whose acne has been eliminated, whether as a result of treatment or patience, will consider themselves to have been cured of acne.

Choosing Right Antibiotics

In selecting a concrete antibiotic treatment it is necessary to rely on a disease which supposes this or that antibiotic, its level, patient's individual tolerance, and other peculiarities of a person who is going to take antibiotics. 

Each antibiotic has its own peculiarities which must be taken into account in each case. Generally speaking antibiotics are widely applied for the treatment or prevention of bacterial infections. Some antibiotics may have secondary uses, such as the use of demeclocycline (Declomycin, a tetracycline derivative) to treat the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH) secretion. Other antibiotics may be useful in treating protozoal infections. 

There are various ways to classify antibiotics. However, the most spread one is concerning their chemical structure, as it is the most important factor which determines the process of treatment. Antibiotics within a structural class will generally show similar patterns of effectiveness, toxicity, and allergic potential. 

CEPHALOSPORINS Cephalosporins and the closely related cephamycins and carbapenems, contain a beta-lactam chemical structure. This group of antibiotics belongs to the most diverse class of antibiotics and is subdivided into first, second, and third generations. Each generation has a wider spectrum of activity than the one before. Besides, cefoxitin, a cephamycin, is highly active against anaerobic bacteria, which offers utility in treatment of abdominal infections. The third generation drugs (cefotaxime, ceftizoxime, ceftriaxone) cross the blood-brain barrier and may be used to treat such diseases as meningitis and encephalitis. 

FLUOROQUINOLONES This group of antibiotics is based on the older group and refers to the broad-spectrum drugs that are chemically unrelated to the penicillins or the cephalosporins. They are well distributed into bone tissue and so well absorbed that in general they are as effective by the oral route as by intravenous infusion.

TETRACYCLINES This is one of the most spread antibiotics group which is widely prescribed worldwide. The tetracyclines may be effective against a wide variety of microorganisms, including rickettsia and amoebic parasites.

MACROLIDES To this class of antibiotics refer Erythromycin, which has a spectrum and use similar to penicillin. Newer members of the group, Azithromycin and Clarithromycin, are particularly useful for their high level of lung penetration. Clarithromycin has been widely used to treat Helicobacter pylori infections, the cause of stomach ulcers.

OTHERS Other classes of antibiotics include the aminoglycosides, which are particularly useful for their effectiveness in treating Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections, and the lincosamide drugs clindamycin and lincomycin, which are highly active against anaerobic pathogens. There are other, individual drugs which may have utility in specific infections.