Causes of Acne Breakouts

Last year, my doc­tor pre­scribed me a com­mon, light antibi­otic called doxy­cy­clin hydrate (I think) for acne and it worked like a charm; not a sin­gle vis­i­ble pim­ple on my face for the 3 months I used it, but my par­ents can­celed the pre­scrip­tion because out of para­noia. So are there any harm­ful or dam­ag­ing effects of long term use(1 year ) of antibi­otics like these?

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2 Responses to “Antibiotics for acne-long term effects?”

1. admin says:

   June 5, 2009 at 5:33 pm

   No.
   Youre fine.
   I was recently taken off Accu­tane about 9 months ago, and i started to have flare ups of acne.
   I started tak­ing some antibi­otics that i had from a recent infec­tion left over, and it cleared it all up overnight.
   A few days later, i went to my der­ma­tol­o­gist and asked him to put me on a low dose daily of antibi­otics to keep the acne away,a and we dis­cussed the pos­si­bil­i­ties of any neg­a­tive side effects, and he re-assured me that i would be fine.
   The only pos­si­ble prob­lem is that the acne strain becomes resis­tant to the antibi­otics, in which case, a dif­fer­ent antibi­otic could be admin­is­tered, yet that is highly unlikely to be required.
2. admin says:

   June 5, 2009 at 5:33 pm

   Most antibi­otics with pro­longed use can cause side effects some of which are harm­ful. The patient need not know all the pos­si­ble side effects of an antibi­otic or for that mat­ter any drug because in the dosages given such rare side effects may not occur. But when the patient vis­its the doc­tor he keeps a watch on the pos­si­ble side effects and accord­ingly warn the patient.

   But when long term antibi­otics like doxy­cy­clinre are given there are pos­si­ble seri­ous side effects which have to be known by the patient.

   For exam­ple doxy­cy­cline can cause exfo­lia­tive der­mati­tis, visual dis­tur­bances which may be indica­tive of intracra­nial hyper­ten­sion, hepa­to­tox­i­c­ity, pan­cre­ati­tis and blood dyscrasias.

   But if you reg­u­lar­ily visit the doc­tor if any of these occur he can diag­nose early and pre­vent the progress of the com­pli­ca­tion.
   Such com­pli­ca­tions wont occur in every body.