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If you’ve ever taken an acne drug prescribed by a professional doctor or dermatologist, then I have something to share with you that one of our readers sent us. It’s from a graduate student who has set up a website that takes surveys on people who have taken various drugs to gather data about things like how it worked for them, side effects, symptoms and all that jazz.

Here is the email I received, and it contains all the information you need if you have taken an acne drug and are interested in participating in this interesting study/information gathering experiment.

I am a graduated student of Roosevelt Academy working on an internship project in conjunction with rateadrug.com to collect primary user data about side effects and benefits from commonly used treatments for Acne.  The goal is to build a large, public access database of unbiased, anecdotal data about Acne treatments.

We want to let both patients and practitioners know about how they can participate in or benefit from the project.  Users can add their experiences with a treatment and learn more about how the treatment is affecting them by taking a short, confidential survey.

They can also use this website to compare aggregate data for different Acne treatments- both conventional and alternative (http://rateadrug.com/Acne-symptoms-feedback.aspx) – and forward the results of their own surveys to their doctors or family members.

Rateadrug is an independent data gathering and information website that does not accept funding or advertisement from drug companies.

Would it be possible for you to make this information available to your viewers so they can help us collect important data on Acne treatments?

Thank you in advance. I’d be happy to speak with you if you have any questions or comments.

Yolanda Mabuto

We’ve all had them, and we’ve all hated them, and most of all, we’ve all gotten them at some of the most important times in our lives, when all eyes would most likely be on us. Of course, when all eyes are on us, this triggers certain hormones to come out in abundance, and those little hormones cause havoc when it comes to keeping your cool and controlling your stress levels.

Stress zits are the worst. They can really feel like a slap in the face when you’re anticipating something huge in your life that’s really important to you like a wedding or a class reunion of something to that effect.

They always seem to grace your face when you have a big event to go to, because you are cranking out the stress hormones so much, and this is effecting your hormonal balance, creating “hormonal acne” which is the biggest, most painful zits and which is also some of the hardest to treat if you don’t know what you’re doing or try to take the easy way out by using the harshest ingredients on your skin.

Many times when we get a big old hormonal zit, we tend to try to drown it with harsh chemicals and the harshest of surfactant cleansers and gels and creams, when in fact we are probably going to make it inflame further. Not only that, but these harsh chemicals also cause redness, dryness and flaking and often can result in scabbing that isn’t the most becoming sight either.

One of the biggest points you want to remember when treating stress acne is to treat it with care and also to make sure you are incorporating lots of lifestyle changes and tweaks to alleviate the stress, the underlying cause, or your acne.

Some say that stress doesn’t cause acne, but that quite simply isn’t true for a lot of people. It depends on the person and how they manufacture hormones when their body is stressed out. Some people respond by cranking out cortisol, which has a domino effect on the delicate balance of testosterone and estrogen in the body, which aggravates skin conditions.

When you are outdoors in this current midwest heat and humidity streak we’ve had for a long period of time, it’s pretty much inevitable that you are going to be a sweaty, soaked mess when you do finally come inside to the cool, clean air conditioned air.  I sweat profusely when I’m working out in a flower bed, or helping my husband mow the lawn. When I come in, I’ll often have sweat marks in places where I didn’t even know I could sweat.

One such place is the area right under the crease/fold of my breasts.  The sweat just pours right out of there, and I can often feel it coming down to my belly when I’m really working up a sweat.

Even if I’m just working out, I have to make sure I’m wearing a very light cotton sports bra, or else I end up with a breakout under my boobs from the irritation and rubbing and friction of an underwire, which is my preference of bra for work since it gives more support and coverage.

You should make sure that when you are going to be out for a long time in the hot sun or in the humid heat, you are wearing only the lightest (and of course cleanest) cotton bras. Cotton is a very breathable material, and that makes it “noncomedogenic” to the skin that it’s surrounding.

When you wear nylon and cotton mixes or anything other than 100% cotton, then you are basically inviting in a buildup of sweat, dirt and ultimately bacteria which lead to breakouts. Actually, the breakout I had under my boobs almost looked like a combination of inflammatory acne and a heat rash, so I treated it like both, first washing it, then putting a soothing acne product on it that wouldn’t just dry it out with chemicals.

Can tomatoes be an effective acne treatment? A ‘tomato a day keeps the doctor’ away. This might become your new saying especially when it relates to acne. The popular tomato that everyone loves so much may be gaining status as the new wonder food. For acne sufferers, the best news is that it is also a successful acne treatment.