Rosacea Treatment

Required Steps for Effective Rosacea treatment

1. The majority of patients with Rosacea are sun and wind sensitive. They often report that being out in the sun or exposed to hot or cold wind makes their face red. This is indeed a trigger. Therefore, it is imperative that vigorous sun protection, sun avoidance, and sunscreen are practiced on a daily basis year round. Refer to my home page to learn more about this. Pick one of the recommended sunscreens. Make sure the sunscreen agrees with you and it feels comfortable on your face.

2. Patients with Rosacea often have triggers that make their faces red. Initially the flushing, blushing and redness may be transient when exposed to these triggers. However, over time the redness may become permanent. Therefore, it is important to identify as many of these triggers as possible and learn to avoid them. One helpful way is to keep a diary of what may cause the redness.

3. Learn to recognize irritants. These can be anything, even aerosols, scents, fragrances, make up, sunscreens, medications, even topical medications, etc. used to treat Rosacea. The symptoms include redness, burning, stinging, itching and peeling. Learn to avoid them.

4. Finally, medications. These will be customized based on the type(s) of Rosacea.

Ocular (eye) Rosacea

At least 50% of Rosacea patients suffer from this subtype. The symptoms are often blamed on allergies. One can experience one, few, or many of these symptoms. They include redness to the eye white, burning, stinging, dryness, grittiness or sand in or under the eyelids, itching, blurred vision, mucus in the eyes, excessive tearing, excessive sun sensitivity or photophobia, puffy eyelid margins, recurrent styes.

Be sure to go to the following sites to learn more about Rosacea.

Rosacea Pamphlet

Rosacea.net

Rosacea

Rosacea from Medline Plus

The National Rosacea Society

Rosacea from Kaiser Permanente Health Encyclopedia

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