Skin Care for Adult Acne
The acne of your teen years has an ugly medical name: Acne vulgaris. That’s to distinguish it from acne rosacea — more often called rosacea. But regular old acne isn’t just for kids; adults can get it, too.
“Adult acne is a very common problem, but an under-recognized one,” says Jeffrey Weinberg, MD, director of clinical research at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York. “Acne can occur later in life.
It can be one or both types. People think it doesn’t happen in adults, but it does.”
At the heart of acne lies the pimple — what doctors call a comedo. It’s a plug of fat, skin debris, and keratin (the stuff nails, hair, and skin are made of) stuck in a hair duct. When it’s open, we call it a blackhead. When it’s closed over, we call it a whitehead. Whiteheads often cause the walls of the hair duct to rupture. This leads to redness, infection, and the papules, pustules, nodules, and cysts of acne
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