Doesn't Milk Produce Breakouts While on Accutane?

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I read from a lot of places and heard from a lot of people and they all say that what you eat or drink doesn't break you out. But I read somewhere that milk contains some “Active” or “Generating” cells that the cow produces and that these “cells” or whatever are what makes you break out. I tend to take my pills with a glass of milk 'cause I read it's good for the absorption but I'm on day 169 and still “breaking out” (really tiny and non inflamed bumps) here and there. I wonder if it's the milk.

F. Victor Rueckl, MD (in memoriam) · Answer

There are some theories, that haven't been totally proven yet but are in the beginning phases of study, that milk has some effect on acne. However most of these are done on people who were not taking medications and milk, so I can't speak to the correlation. However, it is necessary to take Accutane with food (not necessarily milk, but some sort of food), so if you choose to stop drinking milk (although I'm not advising that and I truly don't believe the milk is causing any problems), you still need to take the medication with food.

Doesn't Milk Produce Breakouts While on Accutane?

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