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Breast milk ingredient may
fight acne
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SAN DIEGO, (UPI) -- An ingredient found
in human breast milk and coconut oil shows promise as a cure for acne,
researchers at the University of California say.
Dissaya Pornpattananangkul, a postgraduate researcher at the University of
California San Diego, reported on the findings at a conference there on
Thursday, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph said. She said a face cream
containing lauric acid could win speedy approval as an acne treatment because it
is compounded from substances found naturally or already approved in other
compounds.
"It's a good feeling to know that I have a chance to develop a drug that could
help people with acne," she said. "Common acne afflicts more than 85 per cent of
teenagers and over 40 million people in the United States; and current
treatments have undesirable side effects including redness and burning."
Pornpattananangkul and Liangfang Zhang, a professor at UC San Diego's Jacobs
School of Engineering, have also developed a "smart delivery" method for the
cream. They say attaching the lauric acid to gold nano-particles prevents clumps
of acid from forming and helps locate the bacteria that cause pimples.
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