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More serious forms leave the face pockmarked. A rare form is fulminant acne that combines fever with pain in the joints and muscles.

Usually during adolescence, the oil-producing glands in the skin produce excessive amounts of sebum, the oily secretion that protects and lubricates the skin.

Acne occurs when sebum blocks the sebaceous ducts, forming a plug, and bacteria on the surface of or just beneath the skin start to proliferate. The eruption of acne is activated by heat, after exposure to the sun or before period in women.