Please share an interesting fact about living with rosacea.

Ignore: Consider laser therapy for rosacea. It can work for years.

Ignore: Spicy foods, alcohol, sun, heated tubs, or increases vasodilation will make rosacea worse.

Ignore: Responds to small (50mg) dose of Doxycycline or minocycline. This is only remedy for ocular rosacea.

Ignore: Avoiding anything that makes you flush like coffee and alcohol will help reduce your Rosacea.

Ignore: Diet does not cause rosacea. No need to avoid coffee or tea, spices, and alcoholic beverages.

Ignore: IPL is a light based therapy that works well for many without meds .

Rosacea:: Rosacea: trigger factors include extreme temperature, spicy food, alcohol, emotional stress.

Rosacea:: Avoid exfoliating scrubs, rub-off peels, or alcohol/peppermint skin care products!

Rosacea:: Rosacea: red skin around the middle of the face (forehead, cheeks, nose).

Rosacea:: Rosacea: can involve red bumps with pus (like acne).

Rosacea:: Rosacea: tiny blood vessels (telangiectasias) on nose, cheeks visible up close but appear as "blush".

Rosacea:: Rosacea is worsened by sun exposure, stress, hot weather, alcohol, spicy food, exercise, wind, cold.

Rosacea:: Antibiotics, including erythromycin and tetracycline, can help.

Rosacea:: Rosacea: antibiotics can include doxycycline, flagyl, and minocycline.

Rosacea:: Sulfacetamide topical and sulfur lotion can be helpful in treating rosacea.

Rosacea:: Rosacea: enlarged nose can be helped with surgery - cryosurgery, laser surgery or electrosurgery.

Ignore: Be aware of triggers. Learn what makes your acne worse and use meds to control outbreaks.

Ignore: Untreated rosacea can become rhinophyma an unsightly bumpy nose.