Acne
Acne involves inflammation and blockage around hair follicles and sebaceous glands. It often makes its debut in the teenage years, as hormonal changes trigger heightened reactivity in oil glands. Beyond the adolescent phase, there’s a distinct subgroup known as adult acne and hormonal acne, demanding careful evaluation and management.
Addressing it requires a tailored approach, and our specialised acne clinic is led by Dr Anamica Prasad, our expert with more than 15 years of experience in treating the condition across all ages. With a confident and personalised approach, she is dedicated to achieving quick and effective control, delivering results that go beyond skin deep. We offer a spectrum of treatments, including medical grade skincare, Hydra-Facials, chemical peels, and, in some cases, Roaccutane. In her experienced hands, acne can be swiftly brought under control. Click below to explore how you can achieve the radiant complexion you deserve.
The photos show you the common types of spots that can occur. The diagram shows you the hair follicle and sebaceous gland unit within our skin, how it becomes blocked with oil , skin cells and how spots form. People often think that having the odd peel or facial will control their acne, but unless it’s very mild this is not true. It requires careful assessment and management with prescriptive daily skincare alongside clinic treatments.
Dermatology Consultation
Prescription Medicines
During your in-depth consultation, Dr Prasad may suggest highly specialised treatments and prescription medicines using her experience and expert knowledge.
ZO Skincare
We chose this brand of skincare because it has prescription grade strength and contains many ingredients in unique formulations that remain active and delivered to the right layers of the skin. It enables us to gain rapid control of your condition and often will mean that we can avoid oral medicines, which many clients are keen to avoid.
Roaccutane
Roaccuatane is a brand name of oral Isotretinoin and is the strongest form of vitamin A that we can deliver to your skin. It is taken by mouth, the dosages are calculated according to your body weight, and in private practice we can often use low dose to control your skin. This is started after detailed consultation. It works to shrink the oil gland down and reduce the hair follicle from getting blocked. Click on the leaflet to find out more: https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/isotretinoin-capsules/
Intra-lesional steroid injections
Intra-lesional steroid injections are very useful for treating chronically inflamed spots (these may often feel hard, raised or keloid like), or for spots that appeared and you need rapid improvement, e.g. prior to an event. The strong but safe anti-inflammatory steroid is injected directly into the spot and usually within a few hours or overnight it reduces in size or goes away entirely.
Needle extraction
Controlled and careful needle extraction involves a sterile needle; the top layer of skin breaks is pierced and the sebaceous material is extracted. Needle extraction can be performed during a facial, such as our signature Hydra-Facial or the ZO Stimulator Peel, or during your skin consultation with our therapist.
Please note: It is best to leave us to do controlled and sterile extractions in clinic, rather than you pick and traumatise your skin at home because this can lead to scarring.
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Acne Faq
Acne is a very common skin condition that can really affect people’s confidence and self esteem. We don’t fully understand why some suffer more than others, but individuals tend to have oily skin and their pores that get blocked. Treatment are therefore planned to tackle all of these elements.
Acne in skin of colour (Afro-Carribean, Indian, Hispanic) skin inflammation within the skin increased pigmentation risk, and we consider pigmentation as a form of scarring that requires control. Any form of scarring should prompt early access to a dermatology doctor so that we can gain rapid control of the area before collagen becomes damaged.
Yes, Dr Prasad is a skin and acne expert. Provided you stick with our skin regimes and plans your acne will improve, how quickly depends on how much downtime you are able to handle with work and your lifestyle. Some of the more stronger treatments do require recovery time, but we will of course discuss all this with you at the consultation.