Treatment For Rosacea
Rosacea has had many treatments in the past-some work and some treatments just make your face much worse. The standard treatment for the past few years has been tetracycline and a metronitazole cream such a metrogel, metrocream or noritate. Other creams on the market work about as well, but the problem is most rosaceans can not tolerate anything on their face without causing it to flare or breakout. Avoiding triggers has always been popular, but heat and stress top the list of known rosacea triggers, making it extremely hard to avoid rosacea triggers.
Steroids such as cortisone is a known trigger for patients that have to use this class of drugs. Most rosaceans know that alcohol will cause them to flush and most do their best to avoid drinking, if they know they have rosacea. Certain spicy foods can set some of us off, and it does not take long to learn to stop eating things that turn your face bright red.
The sun is a definite no-no for most rosaceans. We must cover up, use sun screen lotions if our poor wretched faces can tolerate them, big hats, visors, etc.,etc. Most of us seem to just end up avoiding the sun altogether. This is where crimping of life-style really starts to hit home!
Once lasers started hitting the market such as the V-beam and Yag, some rosaceans started to get results, probably the best use was for spot treatment of visible blood vessels on the face. Then IPL or Intense Pulsed Light came out about 8 years ago, and things really started to happen!
IPL was the first real thing rosaceans could hang their hat on. The main reason is it really reduced background redness or erythema of rosacea. Plus, it curtailed the harmful flushing attacks most of us were having. The first machines were slow, 9-10 seconds between pulses. There were not a lot of options with the machine, most did not have the wavelengths or filters to pick from as we do today. Now we can split the energy in one pulse to 3 pulses milliseconds apart. I do not want to start to get technical here, only to say machines on the market today such as the Lumenis One are highly advanced and really work in the right hands. Rosacea can finally be really treated!!
Dr Steve Johnson
Steroids such as cortisone is a known trigger for patients that have to use this class of drugs. Most rosaceans know that alcohol will cause them to flush and most do their best to avoid drinking, if they know they have rosacea. Certain spicy foods can set some of us off, and it does not take long to learn to stop eating things that turn your face bright red.
The sun is a definite no-no for most rosaceans. We must cover up, use sun screen lotions if our poor wretched faces can tolerate them, big hats, visors, etc.,etc. Most of us seem to just end up avoiding the sun altogether. This is where crimping of life-style really starts to hit home!
Once lasers started hitting the market such as the V-beam and Yag, some rosaceans started to get results, probably the best use was for spot treatment of visible blood vessels on the face. Then IPL or Intense Pulsed Light came out about 8 years ago, and things really started to happen!
IPL was the first real thing rosaceans could hang their hat on. The main reason is it really reduced background redness or erythema of rosacea. Plus, it curtailed the harmful flushing attacks most of us were having. The first machines were slow, 9-10 seconds between pulses. There were not a lot of options with the machine, most did not have the wavelengths or filters to pick from as we do today. Now we can split the energy in one pulse to 3 pulses milliseconds apart. I do not want to start to get technical here, only to say machines on the market today such as the Lumenis One are highly advanced and really work in the right hands. Rosacea can finally be really treated!!
Dr Steve Johnson
posted by Dr Steve Johnson at 4:46 PM
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Wow, really informative and great news - that IPL works for some people. I notice you say it really reduced background redness or erythema of rosacea. Plus, it curtailed the harmful flushing attacks most of us were having.
I was going to have a free consultation at an IPL clinic in London, now I am definitely going to have the free consultation, and then if it goes well, and they think IPL will work for me, I will have the treatment (hope it is affordable). I will add a link to the clinic where I am going to book the consultation in case anyone else wants to try it. Rosacea treatment
I am here looking to find the best information about rosacea. Rosacea mainly affects parts of face like nose, chin, forhead and cheeks.
we have some Rosacea pictures. Maybe you need to lokk at this.
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Personally, I've followed a Toronto Rosacea treatment, which was recommended me by a doctor! Now, after like 1 year I'm very satisfied of my results! I've got rid of the redness and I'm really happy! :D
It can be an annoying problems, but there are lots of solutions on the market! :)
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