[qiongzhouh]

You're right that there are some very effective prescription treatments that aren't shown, but it doesn't seem like prescription acne treatments are the usually the appropropriate / doctor prescribed choice for most people facing mild to moderate acne.

Personally, my pediatrician told me that acne is just something that happens to teens and recommended that I go try some acne washes from the drugstore instead of prescribing something like Tretinoin which could have some pretty intense side effects.

Reading r/SkincareAddiction has been really helpful for me, especially seeing the range of experiences that people have had, and that's why we made Lumona summarize these results.

[sovnwnt]

>my pediatrician told me that acne is just something that happens to teens

Certainly not... https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/acne

> Clinical trial data revealed that approximately 50% of women in their 20s, 33% of women in their 30s, and 25% of women in their 40s suffer from acne

>which could have some pretty intense side effects

Your site recommends benzoyl peroxide which has similar or worse side effects compared to tretinoin.

It's also a lauded product on both r/SkincareAddiction and r/30PlusSkincare. Not something recommended for kids, but for adults with persistent acne it is worth trying, especially over antibiotics and alongside BP.

[broast]

Lately topical Tretinoin has been shown in numerous studies to cause Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension aka Pseudotumor Cerebri which is quite intense. My post about this on sca from years ago recieves a many comments to this day from other sufferers. I'll never touch it again despite my adult acne. I wonder how many other people have debilitating potentially blinding brain pressure headaches and don't realize it is caused by this medicine commonly accepted as safe.