Why is the right side of my face breaking out
What Your Acne Says about Your Health
what if what if your blemishes could
talk could they expose internal health
problems
a widely circulating internet internet
post says yes where you break out can
reveal what is wrong with you
so we're asking can I call you dr.
pimple popper yes he's our yeah yeah dr.
Sandra Lee what is the real deal yes
well there is this claim that according
to the area of your breakout your acne
breakout it's a reflection of your
lifestyle for example they say that if
you break out on your forehead it's due
to a poor diet irregular sleep digestive
problems on your nose you have poor
blood circulation on your cheeks it's
due to stress and allergies and on your
chin it's because you may have a kidney
imbalance and hormonal imbalance and all
these what's the real deal I'm here to
tell you that this is ridiculous and
it's all ball more to deal with
hold onto your jeans you know who you
your genetics and your um just just good
types so let's go through some areas
some problem areas we've all had so
actually what's really nice though this
gives you a little bit of a lesson too
as dermatologists because we know
according to the area in which you
breakout it does really kind of give us
a clue as to what is causing you
breakout okay so for example if somebody
gets a breakout on their forehead we
suspect that they called palmated acne
that is when people were a heavy product
in their in their hair like oh it's oily
or greasy and they went where their
bangs across their face that's the first
thing I look at when someone breaks out
a lot in the forehead and here's an
example somebody on there on the
forehead and here on the nose now in
particular if we see something there I'm
gonna ask about whether there's certain
activities that tend to trigger your
breakout like whether it happens after
you drink coffee if you're drinking
alcohol if it's really if you have just
exercise in chocolate spicy foods all
kind of the fun stuff but all those
kinds of things make us think about
rosacea and now for your cheeks cheeks
are it's pretty common to get a breakout
on our cheeks and I will say that in
males have you seen abrupt breakout
we're gonna think about steroid acne so
somebody's a little bit pumped up and it
comes up really abruptly
you're a breakout I'm gonna think you
know is this person taking anabolic
steroids for the record it doesn't mean
someone in yeah so it doesn't but it's
just your spouse it's like honey are you
juicing no just something that we think
about and if you're a female and you get
a breakout and you're an adult and you
get a breakout in the beard distribution
of the mandible this distribution that's
actually something that we we suspect
might be a hormonal imbalance and
certainly if you have hirsutism meaning
you have some terminal hair growth or
your voice is a little deeper or
something maybe there's something a
little awry with your hormones and we
might even suspect or evaluate for PCOS
polycystic ovarian syndrome or something
that might cause this breakup because if
you can solve that we can maybe sell
there at we could probably sell their
actual this is that is an example of
where your acne may reflect something
going on internally yes and absolutely
and on your chin you know a lot of
athletes will get an acne breakout on
the chin because they were to the strap
water polo players football players
wrestlers and they don't realize that
this occludes this air you sweat in that
air it's dirty too and also we get in
that area you get perioral dermatitis so
parallel dermatitis actually happens
exclusively well almost exclusively in
women and it's actually not acne it may
look like it but it's actually a little
eczema or a little breakout so these are
the kinds of if I see these in these
areas you know the breakout in these
areas I'm going to think of a specific
diagnosis or kind of hone in on on some
kind of treatment regimen because it
looks like anything in medicine if you
keep track of where your problem areas
are you can discuss that with your
doctor and maybe there will be a clue in
that that helps you determine what the
true causes that is the real deal
