Rosacea-Ltd III

Rosacea Science and Reality

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same thinking that created them".

Dr. Albert Einstein

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 rosacea treatment. Improving the skin involves a complete change in your thought processes and your approach to treating and controlling your rosacea.

Antibiotics, retinoids, Accutane, and steroids have been a mainstay of rosacea treatment for years. While over the same years, the rosacea patients have noticed that these prescribed pills, creams, dermabrasions and light treatments have not worked well as a rosacea skin care product. The result of 'care delayed equaling care denied' is that the rosacea 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.

Also these past treatments for rosacea may have caused additional damage to the sensitive rosacea skin. Oral and topical antibiotic rosacea treatments for adult acne rosacea can work for up to several months before the bacteria become immune to the antibiotic, causing the antibiotic to lose its effectiveness. Dermatologist continue to be baffled by rosacea due to a lack of patient history and experience, and treat rosacea like other skin disorders. The result is that the doctor becomes frustrated and the patient becomes impatient and migrate to another doctor. Oral antibiotic treatment actually cause more rosacea red symptoms. For information on the latest FDA findings, see Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics.

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 is to restore the moisture to the skin. This can’t be achieved at the surface with facial or moisture 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 reduce the facial redness and reduce the oily areas of the skin. Your skin will produce more oil, as a protective barrier is hold in moisture when the skin is too dry.

You can read the types of natural treatments causing the many types of 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, Food and Allergy: Heavy meal flushing and sugar and carbohydrate flushing, Food allergy flushing Acid Flushing: Alcohol flushing. Many drugs actually cause more redness and flushing can be seen at Prescription Drugs Flushing. And the most dangerous and over used drugs that causes the most flushing are antibiotics. Normal antibiotics and "superbug antibiotics" such as the powerful or last-resort antibiotic known as Vancomycin is most acidic to kill almost all bacterial strains resulting in Vancomycin also being appropriately known 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. For sure 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 rosacea other than prescription medications or prescription treatments. What do you have to lose ? Well, you will lose the change of getting superbugs, etc.

Rosacea-Ltd III is for all types of rosacea such as rhinophyma (which sometimes occurs with the more severe rosacea over the years. The 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 sufferer. 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 that becomes the cause of embarrassment. 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 erythematotelangiectatic 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.

Acne rosacea once a term used interchangably 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 aggressive azealic and salicyclic acids and various treatments used to control acne can lead to a more difficult to control rosacea.

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 signs of rosacea include blepharitis, conjunctivitis, chalazia, styes, punctate epithelial erosion, corneal infiltrates, corneal vascularization and perforation, inflamed eyelid margins, and scales and crusts of the eyelids. Much of our ocular rosacea treatment research has been personally investigated over the past 27 years by Johns Hopkins MD as a staff member.

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.