USE OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE “CIPROTERONE” IN ACNE TREATMENT

Abstract

Oral contraceptives are currently recommended for the treatment of acne. The present work aims to present an integrative research on the use of Ciproterone Acetate by women affected by acne, to demonstrate and address the importance of the effects when used as therapy and not just as contraceptive. The research is justified, considering the studies carried out and the effects of Oral Contraceptives a s an alternative treatment to Acne. In this work, the search took place using the keywords contained in the DeCS (Health Sciences Descriptors), namely: “Oral Contraceptive”; “Treatment”; “Acne”. The Boolean AND operator was used to join the descriptors. During the search for articles on the VHL pharmacy platform, using the keywords mentioned above, a total of 14 articles were found, of wich 8 were more relevant to this work. At the end of this research, it was concluded that the use of Ciproterone Acetate when used as therapy and not only as contraceptive contributes to the improvement/cure of acne.