Why do acne during
periods every other month
May everyone does not know why acne/pimples during or before periods (mensuration).
The ovaries take turn an ovulation so this month it might be at the left ovary next month it might be the right ovary and that correlates sometimes with acne that develops on the jawline and one side one month the next month it's on the alternate side which is actually quite interesting but let's talk about what actually causes the acne during menstruation when you're having your period if we look at the entire month we have several things happening at day 14 when you're ovulating you have the high spike of estrogen about a week later you get the high spike with progesterone but during menstruation you have the lowest amount of estrogen and the lowest amount of progesterone so the question is why are you getting acne, if these two are alone well there's another hormone involved and that is called testosterone now testosterone is a type of androgen and that is a male hormone but even women have a certain amount of it but if there's too much of it in a female body you start getting facial hair acne hair loss deeper voice things like that now the ovaries produce several types of androgens which can then turn into testosterone or DHT.
Also your adrenal glands also make androgens which can also turn into testosterone but the majority or the lion's share is produced by the ovaries so what's happening with acne is you're getting too much testosterone for the amount of estrogen and progesterone that's in your body so we have this ratio that just shows too much testosterone and testosterone and DHT enlarges the sebaceous gland or the sweat gland and that can then release more sebum or more oil and there can be bacteria involved and then that results in acne so acne just occurs if there's too much antigen.
This in puberty you see this in another condition called polycystic ovarian syndrome in that case you have much insulin that's converted to androgen in this case it's a little bit different because it's cyclic in other words it doesn't happen all month long it happens during this period of time. So we know there's just an imbalance there's too little estrogen and progesterone and just too much testosterone.
Now the question is how you take care of your skin during this time. 1st thing you should do is drinking more and more water during this time because when your body is well hydrated from inside it will be okay from outside also. 2nd is you should apply aloe vera gel mixing with almond oil and little bit neem powder this will erase the bacteria from the pimples and it will start reducing.
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