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Introduction | |
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About This Book | |
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Conventions Used in This Book | |
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Foolish Assumptions | |
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How This Book Is Organized | |
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Icons Used in This Book | |
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Where to Go from Here | |
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Facing Up to Acne | |
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Dealing with Acne | |
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Acne Explained | |
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Waking up to whiteheads, blackheads, and zits | |
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Taking it on the chin later in life | |
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Creating Your Acne-Treating Program | |
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Meeting the players | |
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Deciding whether to treat yourself | |
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Relying on the experts | |
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Avoiding quickie, quacky cures | |
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Recognizing Impostors and Related Conditions | |
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Getting Comfortable with the Skin You're In | |
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Exploring Your Largest Organ | |
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Getting above it all: Hey, your epidermis is showing! | |
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Scratching the surface: Now your dermis is showing! | |
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Digging deeper: Your subcutaneous layer | |
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Basic Operating Instructions: Taking Care of Your Skin | |
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Washing your face | |
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Dealing with dry skin | |
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Coping with an oil glut | |
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Tracing the Evolution of a Pimple | |
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Paying the High Price for Oil | |
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Priming the pump with hormones | |
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Clogging your pores and narrowing the hair canal | |
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Forming blackheads and whiteheads | |
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Battling bacteria | |
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Scarring: Your skin's repair kit | |
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Classifying Acne | |
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Figuring Out Your Acne and How to Tackle It on Your Own | |
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Examining Acne in Teens | |
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Identifying Teenage Acne | |
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Taking a look at teen skin | |
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Exploring teen acne | |
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Tracking acne's footsteps | |
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Understanding the Causes of Teenage Acne | |
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Passing through puberty: Hormones gone wild | |
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Thanking your family: The heredity factor | |
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Acknowledging the Emotional | |
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Addressing Acne in Adults | |
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Identifying Adult-Onset Acne | |
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Describing the symptoms | |
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Taking an emotional toll | |
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Emerging at Any Age | |
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Acne and your menstrual cycle | |
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New baby, new bumps: Acne and pregnancy | |
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You're never too old | |
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Facing Acne As an Adult Man | |
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Evaluating Other Causes and Contributors: Myth and Reality | |
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Debunking Dirt and Grease Theories | |
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Dismissing the Diet - For the Most Part | |
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Frying up an acne fable | |
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Here's the beef - and the milk | |
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No, it's the sweets: A disease of Western civilization? | |
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No, it's the iodides | |
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Salmon saves the day, or does it? | |
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Understanding Stress and Acne | |
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Addressing some Aggravating Agents | |
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Drugs that can induce acne | |
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Initiating or irritating factors? | |
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Making Up and Breaking Out? | |
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Reading the ingredients | |
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Living in an oil-free world | |
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Taking Care of Acne Over the Counter | |
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Taking Action Topically: A Primer | |
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The Lazy Bums! Inactive Ingredients | |
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Getting In on the Active Ingredients | |
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The benefits of benzoyl peroxide | |
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Trying salicylic acid | |
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Other OTC medications | |
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A Word about Acne Soaps, Cleansing Strips, Et Al | |
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Evaluating Advertisers' Claims | |
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Turning to the Pros to Treat Your Type of Acne | |
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Calling in the Experts | |
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Establishing Basic Goals of Treatment | |
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Seeing Your Primary Healthcare Provider | |
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Working together to treat your acne | |
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Requesting a referral to see a specialist | |
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Finding the Right Dermatologist for You | |
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Using networking techniques | |
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Checking in with professional associations | |
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Looking at your insurance directory | |
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Perusing the phone book and advertisements | |
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Going to the Dermatologist for the First Visit | |
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Taking stock of your medical history | |
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Preparing on the day of your visit | |
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Meeting the doc | |
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Launching a Good Working Relationship | |
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Following instructions | |
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Being a "patient" patient | |
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Telephoning the dermatologist with questions | |
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Deciding to change dermatologists | |
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Reviewing the Topical Tools at Your Dermatologist's Disposal | |
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Taking the Topical Route | |
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Opening Up the Tool Chest | |
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Reviewing topical retinoids | |
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Turning to topical antibiotics | |
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Combining benzoyl peroxide with topical antibiotics | |
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Looking at other topicals | |
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Going Generic | |
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Taking the Oral Antibiotic Route | |
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Calling In the Reinforcements | |
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Deciding it's time for oral antibiotics | |
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Addressing some common concerns | |
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Tetracyclines: The First Team | |
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Reviewing warnings, risks, and side effect of tetracyclines | |
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Taking generic ("plain") tetracycline | |
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Taking minocycline | |
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Taking doxycycline | |
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Second-Line Oral Antibiotics | |
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Surveying Strategies to Reduce Antibiotic Use | |
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Your Guides to Your Medications | |
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Hormonal Treatment for Women | |
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Using Oral Contraceptives | |
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Suppressing the cycle - and the acne | |
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Taking the best pills for acne | |
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Looking out for side effects | |
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Trying Anti-androgens | |
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Managing Acne in Dark-Complexioned Skin | |
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Recognizing Diversity | |
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Figuring Out Those Dark Spots! | |
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How dark spots are formed | |
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Deterring the dark spots | |
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Keeping Acne and Dark Spots at Bay with OTC Medications | |
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Benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid | |
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Over-the-counter bleaches | |
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Getting Professional Help | |
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Treating your acne and PIP with topical drugs | |
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Peeling the pigment away | |
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Managing the scars | |
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Oral acne therapy to prevent scars and PIP | |
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Looking at Pomade Acne | |
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Cosmetics for Women of Various Ethnic Groups | |
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Attacking Acne with Accutane and Other Isotretinoins | |
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You Say Accutane, I Say Isotretinoin | |
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Getting to Know the Drug and Its Uses | |
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Preparing for Treatment | |
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Procedures all patients must follow | |
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Additional steps females must take | |
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Knowing What to Expect when You Take Isotretinoin | |
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Taking your pills and observing results | |
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What not to do when you're taking isotretinoin | |
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Sizing up side effects | |
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The risk of depression and suicide | |
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Searching for Weapons of Zit Destruction | |
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You Light Up My Face: Zapping the Zits | |
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Honing in on P. acnes with photodynamic therapy | |
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Looking ahead: Stopping oil at the source and other promising paths | |
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Avoiding ultraviolet light | |
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Taking It from the Top | |
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Experiencing an AHA or BHA peel | |
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Trying out a TCA peel | |
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Seeking Alternative Treatments | |
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Does Alternative Medicine Work? | |
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Exploring Traditional Chinese Medicine | |
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Trying Chinese herbs | |
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Trying acupuncture for acne | |
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Going Natural: Herbs and Supplements Are All around You | |
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Fighting bacteria with botanicals | |
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Reducing inflammation with herbs | |
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Herbs at the cosmetic counter | |
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Finding a professional herbalist | |
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Going natural with minerals and vitamins | |
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Checking Out the Ancient Art of Ayurveda | |
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Taking a Deep Breath: Aromatherapy | |
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Considering Homeopathy | |
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Practicing Mind/Body Medicine | |
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Practicing yoga | |
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Meditation: Contemplating nothing | |
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Biofeedback and cognitive imagery | |
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Hypnosis | |
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Dealing with Scars and Associated Conditions | |
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Focusing on the Physical Scars | |
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Examining Acne Scars | |
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Pulling in: Scars caused by loss of tissue | |
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Growing out: Collagen running amok | |
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Taking Initial Treatment Steps | |
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Deciding whether you want to do anything about it | |
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Finding a physician | |
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Treating Your Scars | |
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Laser skin resurfacing | |
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Considering other surgical treatment options | |
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Trying out dermabrasion | |
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Vacuuming your skin: Microdermabrasion | |
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Considering emerging technologies | |
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Coping with the Psychological Scars | |
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Facing Acne Can Be Tough - But You Can Do It | |
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Detecting Depression in Yourself and Your Family | |
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Helping Your Child Deal with Acne | |
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Offering your help | |
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Detecting depression in teens | |
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Accutane and depression: Is there a link? | |
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Thinking about Therapy | |
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Reining in Rosacea and Other Acne Look-Alikes | |
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Rosacea 101 | |
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Describing those affected | |
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Reporting the signs and symptoms | |
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Addressing additional signs and symptoms | |
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Comparing the appearance to acne | |
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Determining whether it's just rosy cheeks | |
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So, what causes rosacea? | |
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Examining Irritants and Rosacea-Prone Skin | |
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Handling your skin with care! | |
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Making it worse - fact and fiction | |
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Treating Rosacea | |
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Taking a look at the topicals | |
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Treating rosacea by mouth | |
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Managing the Redness | |
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Covering up with camouflage | |
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Buzzing the telangiectasias away | |
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Getting the red out: Light-based therapies | |
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Going the surgical route for rhinophyma | |
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Identifying Rosacea Look-Alikes | |
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Recognizing perioral dermatitis | |
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Being aware of topical steroid-induced "rosacea" | |
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Fighting the Feisty Follicle | |
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Reining in Razor Bumps | |
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Examining the causes | |
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Shaving correctly with PFB | |
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Treating razor bumps on your own | |
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Getting professional help | |
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Dealing with Those Hairs | |
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Removing hairs temporarily | |
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Removing hairs permanently | |
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Slowing down the hairs | |
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Recognizing and Feeling Keratosis Pilaris: "Hair Bumps" | |
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Distinguishing KP from acne | |
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Treating the hair bumps | |
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Reviewing Endocrine Disorders Associated with Acne | |
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Connecting Androgen Excess and Acne | |
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Testing for endocrine imbalances | |
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Considering the most common cause of androgen excess: PCOS | |
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Touching On Other Endocrine Disorders | |
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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia | |
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Cushing's disease and Cushing's syndrome | |
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The Part of Tens | |
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Ten Terrific Acne and Rosacea Web Sites | |
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AcneNet | |
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American Society for Dermatologic Surgeons | |
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DermNet NZ | |
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eMedicine.com | |
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MedLine Plus: Acne | |
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Omni: Acne Vulgaris | |
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RosaceaNet | |
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Stop Spots | |
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Acne Support Group | |
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Dermatology in the Cinema | |
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Ten Tips for Healthy Skin | |
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Steering Clear of Excessive Sun Exposure | |
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Opting for Sunless Tanning | |
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Dimming the Shine of Oily Skin | |
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Humidifying Dry Skin | |
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Soothing Sensitive Skin | |
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Promoting a Youthful Glow | |
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Caring for the Bumps | |
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Minimizing Stress | |
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Visiting a Dermatologist | |
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Giving Yourself a Break | |
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Ten Things You Should Never Do to Your Skin | |
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Picking, Popping, or Squeezing | |
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Pre-tanning at a Salon | |
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Smoking | |
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Taking Too Much Vitamin A | |
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Traveling the Perilous Peel and Dermabrasion Route | |
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Treating Rosacea with Over-the-Counter Medications | |
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Applying Topical Steroids to Your Face | |
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Shaving with Four-In-One Razor Blades | |
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Using Mystery Products | |
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Looking in the Mirror too Much | |
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Appendixes | |
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Glossary | |
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International Brand Names for Some of the Medications Listed in This Book | |
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Index | |