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Baby acne, also known as neonatal acne or acne neonatorum, is a common condition seen in newborn babies. Almost 20 percent of newborns suffer from it.

Baby acne is characterized by the appearance of pimples or red bumps on the baby’s scalp, forehead, and especially the cheeks. A rough skin, along with pustules, whiteheads, and blackheads is also a common indication of baby acne.

Baby acne is the same as infantile acne or teenage acne

This is not true. Baby acne is not the same as infantile acne, which affects older infants over three months old. It also has no connection with the acne that teenagers and adults suffer from. Read the rest of this entry »

Acne is an almost unavoidable aspect of growing up but the teenagers most affected by this common and frequently temporary skin condition say they’d gladly pay hundreds of dollars if it meant never having acne in the first place. The psychological impact of the condition can be alarming enough that even the parents of teenagers are willing to pay up if it means their children could avoid ever having an acne flare-up.

The psychological impact of teenage acne runs the gamut from anxiety and depression to embarrassment strong enough to invite social dysfunction. Researcher Cynthia L. Chen, MD, and her team of colleagues from the University of California, San Francisco, enlisted 266 teens to volunteer for a study on the effects of acne vulgaris during adolescence.

What Acne study asked

Questionnaires answered by the teens were used to identify the cost a teen would be willing to pay to avoid any incidences of acne as well as how much of their lives they’d be willing to forfeit if it meant a lifetime of freedom from acne. And, since it’s usually the parents who foot the bill for their children’s acne therapy, the volunteer teens’ parents were also included in the survey. Read the rest of this entry »