Acne at your age is usually a result of some kind of hormonal disbalance. Also, sometimes the acne that one had as a teenager resurfaces later in adulthood, but there is no clear explanation of why this happens.<\/p>\n
Particular medications can also provoke acne. These include anabolic steroids, lithium, anti-tuberculosis drugs rifampin and isoniazid, antiepileptic drugs and medications that contain iodine. Chlorinated industrial chemicals are another possible cause.<\/p>\n
There are no major reports that link HIV or HIV treatment with acne. That is why, it is important to arrange a meeting with a specialist dermatologist. Your HIV doctor or your GP should be able to arrange this referral for you. The treatment will depend on the results of this consultation.<\/p>\n
Self-prescribing is not a good idea as some products may make this worse rather than better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
l don’t know whether you can help me? Recently, l have noticed that l get a lot of skin problems, especially acne and blackspots, as well as blemishes. l have suffered with acne in the past, but it has not been this prominent. l am 35 years and have been positive for six years.<\/p>\n
Is this HIV related and what treatment would you recommend?<\/p>\n
My GP once prescribed Elocon cream 0,1%, a mild form of steroid, but this hasn’t worked for me, it has actually exacerbated the problem as far as l can see.<\/p>\n
My sister went to her GP and she was given peroxide facial wash and clindamycin cream, all used once a day, she gave the extra pack to me to use. Is this appropriate with my diagnosis?<\/p>\n
Please help l am getting paranoid, because l am so conscious with my appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}