Keeping tabs on your menstrual cycle and then adjusting your skincare as needed can help prevent pre-period flare-ups. For ...

Opens in a new tab or window Spironolactone use among young women and girls has been growing since 2000 for acne and other androgen-related conditions. Although established for cardiovascular ...

Spironolactone – sometimes called “spiro” for short – has been a miracle drug for many suffering from acne, PCOS, and hair loss. Typically taken orally or in combination with other topical ...

These include managing acne and treating excessive hair growth. Spironolactone is available as an oral tablet (a brand name being Aldactone) and an oral liquid suspension (a brand name being ...

You can also block androgens like testosterone from circulating through your body and causing acne by taking prescription testosterone-blocking medication such as spironolactone. But this ...

additional systemic therapies for severe inflammatory and severe mixed acne include high-dose tetracycline (1-3 g/day in divided doses), spironolactone, low-dose corticosteroids, isotretinoin ...

Acne is often common and severe in transmasculine ... oral antibiotics and isotretinoin. Spironolactone and oral contraceptive pills should be avoided in this population, according to Dommasch.

The landmark Randomized Aldactone Evaluation Study (RALES), published in 1999, showed that spironolactone, a potassium-sparing diuretic, improves outcomes in patients with severe heart failure.

investigated whether adding the aldosterone receptor antagonist spironolactone to renin–angiotensin system inhibition improved proteinuria in patients with diabetic nephropathy. Patients with ...