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[lolcaca]

Hey so before I decided to go with accutane, I bought some stuff:

-Fish oil pills
-Chelated 50mg Zinc pills
-B-50 Complex
-Vitamins C&E pills

I didnt end up using any of these on accutane but now I've been done with the treatment for about about 3 months (worked pretty well minus the redmarks) and a little bit of acne is coming back. I was thinking of using vitamins to see if it could help out.

I am definitly going to use the fish oil and the zinc but I was wondering how important the other 2 were? Also what are the chances of breaking out using the zinc?

Thx

[databased]

Also what are the chances of breaking out using the zinc?

Zinc repeatedly proves modestly better than placebo at reducing acne. It's unlikely to cure most folks' acne by itself.

I don't know of any similar body of research to support Vitamin C or E, but since no one knows exactly how acne works, it doesn't hurt to give it a try. Vitamin A and D are plausibly implicated in acne at the cellular level, but taking Vitamin A (e.g. cod liver oil) may interfere with Vitamin D, so it's not clear how reasonable it is to take both. The Vitamin D Council believes most folks are deficient, and since few people ever get tested it's hard to prove they're not right.

You can buy beta-carotene supplements to allow the body to create only as much Vitamin A as it needs, but they usually come in enormous doses, and beta-carotene may significantly increase non-heme iron absorption; increased iron absorption is not a plausible health benefit unless you're anemic specifically because of the lack thereof. You can also just eat foods to get beta carotene.