Show Keep Skin Clean to Prevent Acne Is Advice vice to tot the e Young Local Treatment Is Best Say the Dermatologists Chicago For Chicago For acne the acne the adolescents adolescent's adolescents adolescent's adolescents adolescent's ado ado- complaint local complaint local skin cleanliness brings the best re re- That improperly functioning endocrine endocrine en en- endocrine glands are probably fot for acne medical research research research re re- re- re search examiners believe But no glandular substance found is enough better than local treatment to justify justify justify jus jus- the expense and effort of its administration Thirty-nine Thirty students at the University University University Uni Uni- of Iowa have recently been treated for acne as a part of a scientific 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 sex hormone in acne patients patients patients pa pa- the Iowa physicians began their study They took twenty-eight twenty women students and eleven cleven men the average 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 details de de- de- de tails In the care and treatment of 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 substance sub sub- stance and which were getting wa wa- ter Treatment went on for from four to six months with 85 per cent of those given the hormone substance showing moderate to marked im- im im- im In Yd 7 n r runt r nf of the l control group given sterile water showing the same degree of improvement im im- im- im provement The Iowa doctors concluded at atthe atthe atthe the end of 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 are the instructions for local treatment of acne given to most of the students Stop all picking and squeezing Discontinue the use of all cosmetic creams Wash with soap and water water water wa wa- ter twice daily keeping the skin almost to the point of scaling Eat a diet low in drates Eat no candy Remove blackheads by placing ho hots ho towels on the face for five minutes then applying applying applying ap ap- ap- ap plying a thin coating of 3 per cent resorcinol in cold cream to the face and again applying hot towels for five ive minutes The blackheads are then squeezed out with a remover the face rinsed with cold coldwater coldwater coldwater water and water ap ap- plied Apply a prescribed lotion two or three times a day Avoid iodized salt Shampoo the hair twice a week |