Show Keep Skin In Clean can to Prevent Acne Is Advice vice to tote the Young Local Treatment Is Best Say the die Dermatologists Chicago For acne the acne the adolescents adolescent's complaint local complaint local skin cleanliness brings the best results That That Improperly functioning endocrine endocrine endocrine en en- glands lands are probably res pan pan- for tor acne medical research research research re re- re- re search examiners believe But no glandular s substance found is enough better than local treatment to just justify jus jus- Wy t y the expense and effort of Its administration Thirty nine students at the thc University University Uni Uni- of Iowa have recently been treated for acne as a part of a scientific scientific experiment Dr Grace E. E Williams Williams Williams Wil Wil- liams medical adviser to women and Dr Ruben professor sor of dermatology at the university university university sity report their observations on these students in the Journal of the American Medical Association With evidence pointing to a deficiency deficiency deficiency of at sex hormone in acne patients patients patients pa pa- the Iowa physicians began their study They took twenty eight eight women students and eleven men the average being being nineteen years Of these eleven had severe twenty moderately severe and eight mild acne Hormone Treatment Not Effective All thirty-nine thirty students were asked to give meticulous attention to details details de dc- de- de tails in the care and treatment of at their skin In addition twenty of them were treated with sex hormones hormones hormones hor hor- mones while the remaining nineteen nineteen nineteen nine nine- teen were also given Injections but the injections were merely sterile water The students did not know which were getting hormone substance substance sub sub- stance and which were getting wa wa- ter Treatment went on for tor from four to six months with 85 per cent of at those given civen the hormone substance showing moderate to marked improvement improvement im im- improvement provement and 78 per cent of the control group given sterile water showing the same degree of ot Im Im- provement The Iowa doctors concluded at atthe atthe atthe the end of at the experiment that a deficiency of the pituitary-like pituitary hormone hormone hormone hor hor- mone is not an important factor in causing acne and that the local treatment is still the best bet for controlling acne Here arc are the instructions for local treatment of at acne given to most of the students Stop all picking and squeezing Discontinue e the use of all cosmetic creams Wash with soap and water water vater wa wa- ter twice daily keeping the skin almost to the thc point of scaling Eat a n diet low in carbohydrates drates Eat no candy Remove blackheads by placing hot towels on the face tace for five minutes then applying applying applying ap ap- ap- ap plying a thin coating canting of 3 per cent r resorcinol In cold cream to the face tace and again applying hot towels for tor five minutes The blackheads are arc then squeezed out with a remover the face rinsed with cold coldwater coldwater coldwater water and water ap zip- plied piled Apply a prescribed lotion two or three times a day Avoid Iodized salt Shampoo the thc hair twice a I week weck I |