Post-Pregnancy Acne

post-pregnancy-acne

I suffered with acne badly as a teenager and was put on Retin A and tetracycline, along with many other products. They all seemed to help while on them but as soon as I went off things would return to “normal.” The one thing I could always count on was the acne on my back and chest and neck would always come back with a vengeance. There was nothing I didn’t try.

When I was pregnant 4 years ago, I got a really bad yeast infection on my back. The doctor said it was Tinea vers. He prescribed Ketaconzole (my daughter was 4months old at the time). I really didn’t want to take the ketaconzole so of course I didn’t.(don’t know if that was a smart thing or not)I instead found a website that told me I could put Selsun Blue on the rash for 10 minutes twice a day every day for a week. I did that and lo and behold it got rid of the rash.

Anyhoo the acne on my back and chest had been exceptionally bad for the last 8 years or so. Last week I decided to start doing more research and found the website
NewZealandDermnet. It has pictures of every skin condition under the sun.

Wouldn’t you know there is a condition called Malassezia furfur AKA Pityrosporum furfur.That usually shows up along with acne or coincides with it because they both thrive under the same conditions.And topical and oral antibiotics seem to work a little but actually make it worse because it is a yeast infection!!

I started putting the Selsun Blue on 3 days ago and then using TeeTreeOil after washing and I am happy to say that it is almost all gone!!!So my acne wasn’t acne.Well not all of it anyway.And yet it looked exactly like it.

When I went to the doctor 4 years ago the rash (tinea) was pink to orange splotches mainly on my lower and middle back. I didn’t connect the pimply rash on my upper back, shoulders,chest and neck with the tinea because they presented so differently so I didn’t use the shampoo on the acne.

I know that the doctor can do a skin scraping to check out if your acne is a fungus.They can grow it using olive oil.

Anyway I am just starting a parasite cleanse then going on to use Threelac (I just got the product so am hoping it will work but don’t want to use it until after the critter cleanse and then going on to do the liver flush then a fast. I want to be very CLEAN!!

Anyway I am just hoping that this helps someone else.Many doctors diagnose this fungus as acne vulgaris because it is so similar.