Q: What happens if you accidentally cut yourself and you do not clean the wound?
A: The wound becomes infected. It becomes inflamed. It starts to hurt. The inflammation gets deeper. Puss starts to ooze out of it. It takes forever to heal.
Now, essentially this is no different to getting acne: your sebaceous glands produce excessive oil, which ruptures your skin and the usually harmless bacteria infect the skin tissue and you end up with an inflammation – an acne cyst.
DAMAGE TO THE DERMAL LAYER =
BACTERIAL INFECTION =
IMMUNE RESPONSE =
ACNE INFLAMMATION
So, is bacteria to blame for acne?
No. Bacteria is not to blame. It is what causes the damage to the dermal layer that is to blame.
Just imagine if all the doctors in the world convinced us that we all should continually take antibiotics, just so that in the event of hurting ourselves we avoided a bacterial infection.
Sounds crazy doesn’t it?
But this is exactly how doctors and dermatologists treat acne. They make acne sufferers continually take antibiotics to avoid bacterial infection.
What the acne sufferer doesn’t realize is that the damage to the skin’s delicate dermal layer STILL CONTINUES to happen. It is just that the chance for bacterial infection is minimized when taking an antibiotic, hence the acne sufferer thinks that the antibiotic is ‘working.’
Antibiotics do NOTHING to treat the root cause for acne.
That is, an antibiotic will do nothing to prevent the damage beneath your skin that is the starting point for acne.
Taking antibiotics will help you for as long as the bacteria haven’t evolved resistance. And in the meantime, the antibiotic will kill all the good bacteria in your gastrointestinal tract that are essential for optimal health.
The trick to acne treatment is in its prevention.
Prevent the damage to your skin and you will prevent acne.
It is as simple as that.