I was doing some research on the Internet today regarding acne and acne treatments, and I ran onto a couple of articles suggesting that some forms of contraceptive pills are idea for treating acne and are regularly prescribed for acne treatment in some countries in Europe and Asia.
I’m a guy. I really have no first-hand experience and only limited knowledge about contraceptive pills. I had the usual teenage experience with “zits” that most guys have, but they cleared up and are not a problem.
It seems to me, though, that contraceptive pills are designed first and foremost to regulate estrogen and progesterone in a woman’s body in such ways that they prevent pregnancy. And I do know further that those two hormones are very powerful, very basic “building blocks” of the female body and the female reproductive process. Considering that, isn’t it just a little bit odd that physicians would prescribe the pills to combat acne? I do know, from some of the stuff I read online, that not ALL acne is hormone related — and it would hope that physicians certainly would recognize the difference and not just give the contraceptive pills out as a sort of “stab in the dark” at the acne problem.
Yet in the real world we discover multiple cases where something may start out under careful control by legitimate doctors, only to be preempted or worked around by unscrupulous people looking to make a buck. The end result usually is someone getting hurt or even killed through carelessness or ignorance.
Maybe I’m making far to much out of nothing. I certainly hope so. But at least one of the sources I read, out of India, expressed alarm at the trend. I would be alarmed, too, if I had a daughter or wife involved in such acne treatments. Or certainly I would be cautious.
Ah, well, what do I know. I’m just a guy who reads the papers.