The Diet and Acne

摘要: To the Editor.— Rosenberg and Kirk's1thoughtful article in AprilArchives(1981;117:193-195) regarding influence of diet on acne stirred a memory or two. My formative years were spent closing phase paleodermatology. Medical training at that time treated sluggish bowel elimination as causative mechanism disease with hostility. In day when few effective medications available for treatment acne, other general measures employed addition to contemporary topical use sulfur salicylic acid. Stokes et al1set great store systemic aspects treatment, emphasis management gastrointestinal (GI) tract. I believe correction constipation is favorable an opinion admittedly anecdotal, circumstantial, empirical, tinged folklore. recall several highly motivated patients who had rapid, indeed almost abrupt, clearing their through