Acne And Eczema: A Short Guide To Treating Both Conditions
When you’ve got inflamed, itchy, or reddish skin, it can be hard to determine the cause of your symptoms. Can it be eczema, or is it an outbreak of acne, or is it caused by something else? It’s important to know. Treating acne with natural eczema balms may be ineffective, whilst some acne treatments can be bad for someone with eczema.
Eczema vs acne
Eczema and acne are two unrelated and entirely different skin conditions. Let’s learn more about them:
- Acne is a skin condition that affects the hair follicles and oil glands. Acne is when your hair follicles get clogged with a mixture of oil and dead skin cells (called sebum). This can cause pimples, blackheads, and whiteheads.
- On the other hand, eczema is a term for a group of skin conditions that causes your skin to become red and itchy, or develop rashes.
Because eczema can cause red and bumpy rashes to form on your skin, it may be confused with an acne breakout. In reality, these two have vastly different causes, so hesitate before using any acne or eczema creams first. Acne is due to the overproduction of oil in the skin, whilst eczema can be caused by a number of factors, from genetics to another underlying condition.
What if you have both?
It’s also possible for one to have both acne and eczema, but due to the nature of both conditions, the two conditions usually affect different parts of the body.
Therefore, it is not harmful to use eczema moisturisers only for the specific parts of the body affected by your eczema, and use other acne treatments only on the area that is affected by acne. You can also use salicylic acid, which is used to treat both eczema and acne.
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