Acne Treatment During Pregnancy

During pregnancy, some women may experience an improvement in their acne, while others may notice a flare. The good news is that for those women whose acne worsens, there are safe treatments that can help acne without harming the developing baby.

When looking for medications, it is important to understand that each medication has a specific pregnancy category. During pregnancy, it is safest to only use those medications labeled as categroy A or B.

Most acne medications fall into Category C, D, or X, however there are still good medications that fall in the B category. Those medications are the topical antibiotics erythromycin (Erygel, Emgel, Aknemycin) and clindamycin (Cleocin T, Clindamax) as well as azelaic acid (Finacea, Azelex). In addition, the oral antibiotic erythromycin is also category B (Eryc, Erytabs, and others).

So, if you are pregnant, and you are interested in treating acne, know that there are medications that are both safe and effective.

2 comments December 7th, 2005