Acne Rosacea & Skin Care
Type of Rosacea Acne

Rosacea (rose-AY-sha) is a long term disease of the skin. What causes this disease? Does a natural treatment exist? Will people affected be able to use creams and other skin care products?

In fact, Rosacea represents redness and swelling of the skin. It could be on the skin or on the back, chest, eyes, ears, neck and even scalp.

At the beginning the person may flush or blush easily. Then the tendency is this blush to become persistent and pimples to occur, as well as visible blood vessels on the nose, chin, forehead and cheeks.

Because of the swelling and redness rosacea can be mistaken for acne and sunburn. The other name of the rosacea is “adult acne”.

Rosacea has affected 14 million Americans between the age of 30 and 50 years old who have lighter skin, blond hair and blue eyes. Anyway, people from any age can suffer from this skin disease.

Rosacea can be passed in the family and women are more affected to this illness. Men suffer from more severe forms of rosacea. Women are also affected in the menopause when increased flushing and blushing may occur.

Some of the famous people who suffer from rosacea are W.C. Fields and the former president Bill Clinton. On some of their photos this could be seen. According to the Gallup survey, 78 percent of the Americans do not know that they have the disease.

People consider that the social and emotional effects of the rosacea are worse than the physical symptoms. According to the statistics 70 percent of the people said that they have lower self esteem and confidence. And about forty one percent had to avoid public contacts and cancel their social engagements.

It is not known what the exact cause of rosacea is and researchers give it to the heredity and environmental factors. Sometimes the reason may be the swollen blood vessels.

Other theory is that the reason is a mite that lives in the hair follicles. Mites usually clog oil glands that lead to rosacea. Other people believe that internal infection produced by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori could be the reason.

The immune system could also play important role in the development of rosacea.

There are four major types of acne rosacea grouped by common signs and symptoms and divided by 17 medical experts.

1. The first one is erythematotelangiectatic rosacea. It is described by flushing and sometimes visible blood vessels.
2. The second subtype is papulopustular rosacea. It has persistent redness and transient bumps and pimples.
3. The other subtype is papulopustular rosacea. It forms excessive tissue and skin thickening. As result of that is enlarged nose.
4. The last one is ocular rosacea. The characters are dry eyes, tearing and burning, swollen eyelids, recurrent styes and a potential for vision loss from the corneal damage.

Most of the patients usually have characteristics of more than one subgroup or develop the characteristics in succession. People may develop some characteristics and may not develop others. The symptoms may be from mild, to moderate and even to severe. It is recommended early diagnosis and treatment.

Patients should check regularly their physician or doctor. They should clean their skin with lukewarm water and clean their skin with non-abrasive cleanser. They should use gentle and mild cotton towels and not rough washcloth.

Patients should use non irritating skin care products, creams and should protect their skin with sunscreen with an SPF of 15 or higher.

Cosmetics can be applied to conceal the effects of acne rosacea like skin-tone foundation with yellow tints not the pink or orange ones.