An excited mother of a teenage boy with severe acne furiously reports to the nurse,"I've told him a thousand times he should bathe more often! I've kept after him about all that junk food he eats.I jump on him when I see him squeezing his zits.I tried to get him to scrub his face three times a day!" The complaint the nurse recognizes as a true statement about the cause of acne is:

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Squeezing the lesions may cause them to spread and push the infection deeper into the follicles.Poor personal hygiene,eating junk food,and the need for facial scrubs are myths.

An Excited Mother of a Teenage Boy with Severe Acne