The disease reminding with its name the beautiful flower produces absolutely opposite effect on your face. No, it doesnt make your face rose-beautiful, but it makes it rose-colored. Except flushing there are a number of symptoms that mostly reveal on the face. The National Rosacea Society Expert Committee established general subdivision of rosacea symptoms with the purpose to classify them into primary and secondary ones. This subdivision helps in recognizing rosacea subtypes and accordingly - treating this dermatologic condition.
Primary features show up at the first stages and are characteristic for the lighter rosacea conditions, while more complicated ones occur at the later stages and prove to be more severe, demanding complex treatment. The primary clinical features of rosacea include flushing, persistent erythema, papules and pustules, and telangiectasia. These symptoms are commonly referred to the erythematotelangiectatic and papulopustular rosacea, the first two types in the classification hierarchy.
As a rule, people experiencing erythematotelangiectatic rosacea suffer from permanent flushing, produced by dilated blood vessels, nontransient erythema and telangiectasia. Papulopustular rosacea (also called to be a classical rosacea) is characterized by the papules, pustules and erythema, often accompanied with burning, stinging, and telangiectasia.
On more advanced stages dryness of the skin, plaque formation, edema, extrafacial rosacea, ocular symptoms and phymatous changes occur. Individuals with phymatous and ocular rosacea experience the further spread of the dermatologic disease - irregular surface nodularity, thickened skin, sebaceous hypertrophy and inflamation of eyelids. All these features may occur separately, or in the combinations with various degrees of complexity. In men with a history of adolescent acne glandular rosacea may reveal. It is characterized by the nodulocystic lesions surrounded by edema (especially on the cheeks), thick sebaceous skin, papules and pustules.
Rosacea primary and secondary symptoms are treated differently. Bumps and pus-filled pimples are commonly treated with the help of topical medications, such as Azelaic acid, Benzoyl peroxide, Erythromycin, Metronidazole, Sulfacetamide and Sulfur lotions. Noticeable results of these remedies are likely to be expected only after approximately two months of the regular apply. Pimples and bumps better react to the oral antibiotics, such as Doxycycline, Erythromycin, Minocycline and Tetracycline.
Severe rosacea cases demand more serious treatment. To diminish nodular rosacea and shrink thickened facial skin Isotretinoin is often prescribed by the dermatologists. Although mind, that it should be carefully taken due to the high risk of the side effects. Redness and flushing, which react to the treatment with difficulty, are handled with the anti-inflammatory medications, intense light and laser therapy, the latter being used to destroy dilated blood vessels.
Rhinophyma, that can become permanent, is treated with the dermabrasion, electro and laser surgery. These procedures remove thickened tissue that can occur around the nose and shape other face areas to the normal condition.
As soon as rosacea features are defined and diagnosed its time to get to the treatment; the earlier it starts, the better are chances to avoid permanent changes.
Let your face be always pretty as a rose bud!
Diana L.
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