Understand Your Options

Understand What To Expect From Treatment:

The major goals of rosacea treatment are to:

• Understand the condition
• Identify and avoid the factors that cause flushing for you and that flare your rosacea
• Control the active symptoms and signs of rosacea
• Achieve optimum maintenance of this condition and its complications
• Understand that this is a chronic condition

Self Help:

• Exposure to weather - sun, cold, wind
• Hot food, hot drinks, and alcohol
• Exercise (you should exercise in cool surroundings and avoid dehydration)
• Medications (you should avoid vasodilating drugs, that is, drugs that expand your blood vessels, and topical steroids)
• Cosmetics (you should avoid greasy, drying, or perfumed products)

• Avoid hot water, loofahs, and rough towels
• Avoid toners, exfoliating agents, and astringents
• Dandruff – Rosacea frequently coexists with sebhorreic dermatitis or dandruff

Cosmetic cover-up

• Anti-redness cream; awaits fuller evaluation - Rosacure® is a silymarin extract that claims to reduce the facial redness in rosacea.

Medical Treatment:

• For mild rosacea, topical therapy is always the first choice
• When rosacea is more severe, topical therapy must often be combined with oral treatment
• Creams and oral antibiotics are not effective in treating the flushing of the face, or the broken blood vessels