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How to cure pimples?

How can I cure pimples?

Pimples, or skin lesions with a red base and whitish core, which appear during teenage years are a manifestation of a disease known as acne vulgaris. To cure pimples you need to

  1. Use an antibiotic
  2. Wash your face regularly
  3. Drink plenty of fluids
  4. Avoid touching your face
  5. Change your bed sheets regularly
  6. Don’t pop your pimples
  7. Eat plenty of fruits
  8. Regulate your diet
  9. Exercise daily
  10. Prevent hair from touching your face

Medical Cure

Antibiotics

Antibiotics, both tropical and oral, can cure acne. Erythromycin and Clindamycin are used to treat acne vulgaris. If you have mild acne, then you would apply a thin layer of clindamycin tropical ointment twice a day after washing your face.

In cases of severe acne, you will have to use a tropical ointment and an oral antibiotic. You would apply the tropical ointment twice or thrice daily and take the oral antibiotic twice a day on an empty stomach.

Natural Remedies To Cure Pimples

Wash your face regularly

Regularly wash your face using tap water. Do not use soap. Wash your face at least 3-5 times a day. Regularly washing ones face has shown to decrease pimples.

Drink Fluids

Drinking hydrating fluids such as fruit choices and water, detoxifies the body and in turn decreases pimple formation. Dehydrating fluids such as coffee, soft drinks, etc. will not help cure pimples. Rather they may increase pimple formation.

Avoid Face Touching

Your hands come in contact with many things during the day which causes them to become dirty and oily. When you touch your face, you transfer oil onto it which increases pimple formation.

Change Bed Sheets

Many people do not change their bed sheets for months. This causes oil and dirt to build up on the bed sheets, and eventually this dirt and oil is transfered onto exposed body surfaces the next time they go to sleep. The oil potentiates pimple formation.

While you sleep, the exposed surfaces of your body which come in contact with your bedsheets produce oil and sweat. The oil and sweat are transfered onto the bed sheets.

When you go to bed the next night, your exposed body surfaces come in contact with the oil which had accumulated on your bedsheets. This promotes pimple formation.

Prevent Hair Touching

Style your hair in such a manner so that they do not fall over your face. Your scalp produces oil which transfers to your face when your hair falls over your face. If you have dandruff, the dandruff also transfers to your face and increases pimple formation.

Eat plenty of fruits

Fruits contain anti oxidizing vitamins which not only neutralize toxins in your body, but also strengthen your immune system. Both affects fight pimple formation.

Exercise Daily

Daily exercise expels toxins from the body by forcing pores to open up. Sweat leaks out of the pores cleansing your system and reducing pimple formation. Exercise aids in curing pimples and provides a clean skin complexion.

Regulate Your Diet

Although there is no scientific research which suggests that food influences pimple formation, many people claim that reducing intake of

  • dairy products
  • milk chocolates and
  • spicy foods

prevents pimple formation.

Don’t Pop Pimples

Do not pop your pimples. When you pop your pimples, the pus, along with the accompanying fluid, oozes onto your skin. New pimples form at the site which comes into contact with the pus.

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