My son's first consultant put him off roaccutaine after she descrbed all the possible side effects, he just carried on with anti- biotics think he's currently on tetracyclene his acne has just about gone but he gets really red skin which is first consultant wasn't bothered about treating. He's now been re-refered to a different consultant who firstly diagnosed psoriasis the ointment he perscribed totally burnt his face and we ended up at A & E, he's now perscribed a milder cream and says it looks like it could be both psoriasis and serbic (?) eczema so we have to see how he goes. But as I said the anti biotics have cleared the acne up but he has been through just about every type of anti-biotic over the last 5 years and when he stopped taking them it came back.