Rosacea Treatment

In the treatment of rosacea, knowledge is power. It is often the cumulative effect of the treatments you've been using to treat your rosacea that may actually be the aggravating source or factor of your current treatment. Improving the skin involves a complete change in your thought processes and your approach to treating and controlling your rosacea.

Oral and Topical Antibiotics Metronidazole - Metrogel, Metrocream, Metrolotion, Rozex & Noritate for Rosacea, retinoids, Accutane, and steroids have been the past primary acne and rosacea treatment for years. During this period, many patients have noticed that these prescribed pills, creams, dermabrasions, and light treatments have not worked well as a rosacea treatment. The result was the old medical quote of,"Care delayed equals Care Denied" is that the patient moves from one medication to trial of another medication in a 'hit or miss' mentality and from dermatologist to dermatologist. While others even more desperate, try to seek out a national or international 'expert rosacea specialist' only to travel further and to spend more money and to no avail.

As we treat our rosacea, we often also have the desire to create a more youthful appearance, and search for the best and most effective anti-aging method to restore the moisture to the skin. This can’t be achieved at the surface with facial or moisture treatment creams; it must be done within the deeper layers of the skin. This can only be accomplished through proper hydration of the body, as our skin is our body’s largest organ. Increasing your water intake will provide a lasting, more youthful appearance and as a side benefit, increasing the moisture in your skin will cause a reduction in the facial redness and reduce the oily areas of the skin. Your skin will produce more oil, as a protective barrier to hold in moisture when the skin is too dry.

You can read about the types of natural treatments that cause the many types of facial redness or flushing at Rosacea Flushing:Types, Patterns & Systems that are part of a complex interaction of one or more physiological systems. These are: Clock rosacea or Systemic flushing, Cigarette flushing, Steroid flushing, Heavy meal flushing, Sugar and Carbohydrate flushing, Food allergy flushing, Acid flushing, and Alcohol flushing. Many drugs that actually cause more facial redness and flushing can be seen at Prescription Drugs Flushing. The most dangerous and over used of these which cause the most facial flushing are antibiotic treatment medications. The "superbug antibiotics," such as the powerful or last-resort antibiotic known as Vancomycin, are most acidic to kill almost all bacterial strains. The high acid intake from Vancomycin results in a dry, red appearance on the facial skin known appropriately to infectious disease doctors as The Redman Syndrome. Some strains of staphylococcus aureus have already shown resistance to all antibiotics other than vancomycin, raising the fear that an invincible strain is near at hand. We need to be most cautious and use antibiotics wisely or our bodies may fight an important battle of "Miracle Drugs vs. Superbugs."

So you will see there are many other wonderful types of treatments for acne and rosacea other than prescription medications or prescription treatments. What do you have to lose? Well, you will lose the chance of getting superbugs while improving your facial skin condition.

Rosacea-Ltd IV is for all types of acne rosacea including rhinophyma which sometimes occurs with the more severe rosacea progression over the years. Rhinophyma papules gradually increase in size. When these nodules converge on the nose, they give the nose a swollen, red appearance or bulbous nose also called phymatous rosacea.

Facial redness which is one of the earliest symptoms of rosacea is flushing or diffuse redness. The flushing factor tends to be cause of comment and embarrassment for the rosacea patient. Facial redness or erythema is best defined as a lengthy flush of embarrassment or emotion in a social situation that may last for a few minutes to many hours. While for many others it is the more constant redness or blotchy flushed appearance. The redness is generally located on the cheek area but can spread down to the chin, neck, or even upper chest. In some cases the forehead may also be involved. This redness can be associated with many things such as food, dust, environmental or chemical allergies, stress, over-exertion, exercise, alcohol, extreme heat or cold.

As the flushing becomes more pronounced telangiectatic rosacea also known as spidery veins and arteries may be present. This a permanent redness in the facial area with a tendency to flush and blush more readily. It is also common to have small blood vessels visible near the surface of the skin (spider veins) and possibly burning or itching sensations. Learn more about the acidity of the body and the cause of rosacea and spidery veins related to acidity or pH (potential of hydrogen).

Acne rosacea once a term used interchangeably to define rosacea, may also refer to the occurrence of rosacea and acne together. Acne occurs in 82% of rosacea suffers and often times the more aggressive acne treatment with azealic and salicylic acids and various treatments used to control acne can lead to a more difficult to control facial skin condition.

Ocular rosacea can cause a persistent dry, burning, or gritty feeling in the eyes. For others, ocular rosacea manifests itself as inflamed and swollen eyelids with small inflamed bumps, eye lashes that may fall out, compounded by bloodshot eyes. Ocular rosacea affects as many as 60% of people with rosacea. Ocular symptoms include blepharitis, conjunctivitis, chalazia, styes, punctate epithelial erosion, corneal infiltrates, corneal vascularization and perforation, inflamed eyelid margins, and scales and crusts of the eyelids.

Papulopustular rosacea is characterized by persistent central facial redness with transient acne pimples, papules and/or pustules located in central area of the face. It resembles acne vulgaris, except that comedones are absent. Burning and stinging sensations may be reported by patients with papulopustular rosacea.

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THE CONTROVERSY OVER LASER THERAPY AND ROSACEA

Rosacea patients have skin that has been damaged or abused by harsh medical treatments of retnoids, wrinkle removal systems, steroids, etc. that have resulted in skin that is already inflamed, thus laser resurfacing may not be in the best interest of the rosacea patient. One can try to remove rosacea damage with laser but it is important to note that but the skin is programmed to grow back which it does with the same problems after healing from laser treatments. There has only been one documented treatment success using laser to treat rosacea flushing.

The short-term success of rosacea laser treatment can depend on several factors, and there are many treatment protocols and many different types of lasers that can be used; argon, pulse dye, neodymium, carbon dioxide and krypton lasers have all been tried. Multiple treatments are often necessary and these are time consuming and expensive. There is certainly anecdotal evidence for the effectiveness of the laser in clearing up erythrosis and teleangiectasia, and many patients are satisfied. But surprisingly - given that rosacea laser treatment therapy is not new (it's been around since the 1980s) and is in widespread use - there is relatively little substantiated information about how useful it is; there is a distinct lack of controlled studies, and the Food and Drug Administration classifies laser therapy as a procedure, so its effectiveness has not evaluated in the same way as drugs.