Hi Ali;
I agree that treatments with antibiotics can disturb gut flora and cause candida problems later. Although I've taken a variety of probiotics and naturally fermented foods for decades, my knowledge of them is nowhere near as sophisticated as many people here, so hopefully someone will come along withmore specific suggestions.
I'll just bring up that zinc deficiency is associated with acne and possibly folliculitis. Here is a link that may offer some info on it, but besides the graphic photos and rather invasive treatments, it did bring up that some of the patients had high serum copper. The article briefly mentioned zinc as a treatment.
With zinc deficiency, there can be a relative excess of copper. Once zinc is supplemented for a time, the imbalance can be corrected. We need copper too.
Zinc along with probiotics, good diet,and more, may help heal the gut. I'm over-simplifying this because it is a huge subject beyond my knowledge.
http://www.carfintl.org/assets/docs/articles/FD_Otberg-Kang-Shapiro_DermatolTher Aug2008.pdf
