4 Types of Severe Acne

Severe acne can affect the personal life of individual. He or she may find it extremely embarrassing to go out and socialize. It can even shatter the confidence of individuals, limit job opportunities and result in overall deterioration of health. If left untreated, scars gets formed and remain there up till the lifetime.

Severe body acne has to be necessarily treated by a specialist or else condition may worsen and get out of control.

Predominantly there are four types of severe acne. These are:

1. Acne conglobata
2. Acne fulminans
3. Gram negative folliculitis
4. Nodulocystic acne



Acne conglobata

This is one of the severest forms of acne vulgaris. It hits males more than the females. Typically the age bracket of 18 years to 30 years is the period which will have more chance for this form of acne to occur. The symptoms are deep abscesses, inflammation, severe damage skin and acute scarring. Blackheads are quite widespread and found on all body parts like face, chest, neck, buttocks etc. condition is further characterized by formation of nodules around comedones. This kind acne conglobata can even affect dormant acne.

Acne fulminans

Symptoms are highly ulcerating and severe form of inflammation. During such a condition patients are known to suffer from fever and severe body aches. This condition generally develops in a person who may probably be having acne conglobata for quite some time and has let that remain untreated.

Nodulocystic Acne

This kind of acne is characterized by formation of cysts. These cysts are quite uncommon and rarely strike a patient. The cysts normally measure up to several centimeters. These cysts may develop singly or in multiples. This cysts found in this type acne are not the true cysts rather they are some sort of dilation of skin structure. Cyst may contain pus after the area gets infected. The effort to puncture such cysts should be done in close supervision of dermatologists. These cysts if appearing close together may lead to another severe form of acne known as acne conglobata.

Gram-negative folliculitis

This is a special type of acne which develops after prolonged antibiotic acne treatment. This basically has a condition in which follicles get affected by bacteria. These bacteria do not get noticed under strain which is known as "Gram" so these are called as gram negative bacteria.

All severe acne conditions are required to be treated by specialists. During treatment support of families and friends is welcome and is always needed. Some times the severe acne remains there for very long periods without showing any positive response to any of the treatments employed. In such situations, it becomes difficult to have patience and keep your cool. Response to severe treatments start showing up some time even after months of starting the treatment. The important thing is to follow the regimen as per the prescriptions given by physicians. Acne if treated with patience gets cured and if proper precautions are taken then one can always have acne free teen years.