[NPInfo] New acne combo

[Judi Shea-Vaillancourt]

still with acne  and what about the kidney function and potassium......

I can see it now   everyone beating   down the door for this combo....

in the middle of a nasty flu season  we had a young woman come in demanding 
her ocp be changed   she wanted lighter periods no acne  and did not want 
her blood drawn...you can guess she wanted Loestrin 1/24
she left  with microgestin 1.5/30
and a hefty  exposure  to some very  sick  kids.
Judi Shea-Vaillancourt FNP
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <stephanie2u at optonline.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [NPInfo] New acne combo


> So about 90% of patients were not free of acne after the treatment. Sounds 
> like a treatment that doesn't work for 9 out of 10.
>
> Stephanie Walker, FNP
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Mittman
> Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:08 pm
> Subject: [NPInfo] New acne combo
> To: PA Forum , ACC Circle Circle , NPinfo
>
>> Contraceptive pill plus diuretic treats acne, study says
>> A U.S. study concluded that a combination of birth control pill
>> Yasmin and a low dose of the diuretic spironolactone is safe and
>>
>> effective for use in women with severe facial acne after 11% of
>> patients were completely free of acne lesions following
>> treatment.
>> The researchers said the combination therapy is "attractive for
>> control of moderate to severe, hormonally-influenced female
>> acne" and
>> recommended that their study findings be confirmed with more
>> patients. Yahoo!/Reuters (2/11)
>>
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