The Risks and
Side Effects of Prescription Acne Medications
Vitamin A is one of the most popular vitamins for acne. This is likely because of a derivative of Vitamin A being used in the most serious acne drug, Accutane. Vitamin A is fat soluble which means the body stores it. This means it is possible to have effects of Vitamin A toxicity if you consume too much of it.
Vitamin A is certainly necessary for your health. A diet including animal meat as well as raw milk will rarely have any problem meeting the requirements for Vitamin A in a daily diet. Now, those who suffer with acne often try extreme things to try to achieve clear skin. One of these things has been supplementing with very high doses of Vitamin A. They assume that if a little Vitamin A helps with healthy skin that much more Vitamin A will help even more. Unfortunately this is rarely the case with anything.
There are reports of people taking 15,000 IU up to 100,000 IU daily in order to attempt to achieve clear skin. This is a dangerous path for two reasons. One is that the body does not need these levels of Vitamin A and so has to remove them from the body, wasting the body's energy on eliminating it. Second, the form of Vitamin A taken is synthetic and usually not very acceptable to the body.
The body has a much better time absorbing the amount of Vitamin A it actually needs from real foods rather than from cheap vitamin supplements. We do not recommend supplementing with Vitamin A unless told to do so by a doctor for specific deficiencies. Far better to eat healthful foods as laid out on our site and let your body absorb proper Vit A. One great source of Vitamin A can be cod liver oil which we recommend highly. A good cod liver oil will get you all the quality Vitamin A you need.
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