# Unusual acne cures **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 27, 2002, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-acne-cures/129795 "2002-09-27T01:16:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-acne-cures/129795/21 "2002-09-29T00:40:36Z")
Stop eating dairy and don’t sleep on your face. ---
**Author:** ![effac3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@effac3d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/effac3d)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-acne-cures/129795/22 "2002-09-29T01:56:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ssarl the happy Martian \* > \*\*Well, my skin is OILY to the EXTREME. So is my acne. > I take tablets called Minocycline daily, which REALLY help prvent any major outbreaks. I recommend everybody with extreme cases. They only outbreaks I have had with pus-headed zits have come when I’ve missed a day. > However it’s STILL not completely effective and I STILL get pimples - the kind that never ‘erupt’ but stay around for about a month even if you pop them to get the fluid out like a hundred times, are REALLY painful, and make HUGE lumps in your skin that eventually became lasting red marks. > HOW do I deal with these? :’( \*\* Yes your condition sounds almost exactly like mine! Except mine have no fluid or pus,just a painful lump in my skin that fades to a discolored bump and a long lasting scar(1-6months). Like i said in my post i have no idea why but restricting my food intake worked wonders,perhaps i was just getting less of a offending food:confused: And thank you to everyone that has posted,I’ll give your cures a try(still kind of reticent about swabbing urine on my face 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Lab2490](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Lab2490](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lab2490)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-acne-cures/129795/23 "2002-09-29T02:35:40Z")
One word: Toothpaste. IMHO it drys em right up ---
**Author:** ![agentfroot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@agentfroot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agentfroot)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-acne-cures/129795/24 "2002-09-29T03:36:43Z")
One summer in high school, my friends were out riding bikes and for some reason decided to ride across town to see me. I wasn’t home, but my neighbor’s sprinkler was on, so they decided to run through it. Apparently my neighbors had infused their sprinklers with Miracle Gro or something, and that came as a rather nasty surprise to my poor friends. It burned their eyes a bit, but one of my friends said her acne cleared up afterwards. Weird… ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-acne-cures/129795/25 "2002-09-29T03:57:13Z")
I’m far from a zit-face, but when the zits come I get all types … the headless lumps that, when squeezed, only produce a miniscule grain of pus; the “silly strings,” “worms” and “plugs;” and the all-American whiteheads. Sounds like most people only get one kind of zit. Do these folk remedies cure multiple zit types, or only one type? ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-acne-cures/129795/26 "2002-09-29T03:57:25Z")
All my friends that have tried this swear by it, and so do I… I used to have pretty bad acne, and now it’s pretty tame even when I don’t use it. [Minocycline didn’t work too well for me, and acne creams burn my skin most of the time.] raw egg yolk. Once a day for two weeks, put raw egg yolk on your face, let it sit until it’s dry enough to peel off, and wash it off with whatever you wash your face with, just make sure to get it all off. After two weeks, all you need is to do it once a week. The vitamin A in eggs clears up acne by killing the bacteria that causes acne, and the egg yolk serves as a moisturizing agent as well, so it’s fine for people with dry skin to do when they’ve got acne problems. If only I could afford to do this while I’m living in the dorms up here… I’d have absolutely perfect skin again, but a few spots every couple of days is alright for now. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-acne-cures/129795/27 "2002-09-29T04:56:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by genie \* > \*\*For myself, changing face soap worked wonders. Right until I got pregnant. Don’t get pregnant if you want clear skin. \*\* My mom said just the opposite, her skin was (supposedly) a mess until she got pregnant, then it miraculously cleared up. I always thought that was a bit drastic of a solution. ---
**Author:** ![hightechburrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f6c823/32.png) [@hightechburrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hightechburrito)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-acne-cures/129795/28 "2002-09-29T05:13:17Z")
When I had bad acne, the dermatologist put me on a drug called Accutane. It is taken twice a day for about six months, and it is very effective. But is also has some fairly serious side effects. Basically, the way it works is by shutting down your body’s ability to produce oil. So your skin get extremely dry, even to the point of cracking if you do not use lotion. In order to take this drug, you need to have blood tests before and every month to make sure it does not screw with you too much. And you absolutley cannot get pregnant, or get anyone pregnant while on the drug. It may seem like anyone would be crazy to take this, but my acne stayed away for about a year after taking it, and is nowhere near as bad as it was before. On a side note, my doctor would inject something (I think cortizone) into the huge bumpy one and they would go away in a few hours. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-acne-cures/129795.md?page=1)