Rosacea is a skin disease frequently seen in older females with a very white skin. It is a colorization of the skin and is seen on the face, especially on the nose and cheeks. At first it looks like these persons are blushing because it is the same redness you seen when someone is blushing. But in contradiction to blushing, the facial redness can hold on for a couple of hours.
At first Rosacea starts with dilated blood vessels that are causing the redness on your face. When the rosacea becomes more severe the redness on the face will be accompanied by papules and postules. When these grow larger they look a lot like severe Acne and they may also hurt. But in contradiction to Acne there are no bacterias seen in Rosacea.
You can treat mild rosacea with creams containing antibiotics that you have to apply locally on the skin. If the Rosacea is moderate than you might have to take oral antibiotics and also apply the cream locally on the postules and papules on your face. If you have severe rosacea than you probably have to take a drug called Roaccutane. This is a derivation of vitamin A and can only be used when every other treatments did not give any results. The treatment is very effective but because there are some probabilities on serious side effects, doctors are very strict on this. If your doctor will decide with you that the use of Roaccutane is the best treatment option than he will monitor your blood levels to make sure everything is ok. Longer use of Roaccutane might cause severe damage to your liver and kidneys.
If you believe you have Rosacea than it is important for you to contact a doctor as soon as possible. You rather want to treat it when it is still at stage 1 because treating it in the end stage is more difficult and has more complications.
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