What Is Rosacea?
Rosacea is a common skin condition, affecting 14 million Americans, and is characterized by redness involving the cheeks, nose, chin and forehead. It may also involve the appearance of bumps (papules) and pustules (acne-like pimples).
Rosacea symptoms and signs may flare up for a period of weeks to months and then lessen for a while before flaring up again.
Rosacea symptoms typically appear around or after age 30 and are more likely to occur in fair skin individuals. Rosacea is more common in women but is certainly seen frequently in men. The cause of rosacea is unknown, but researchers believe it's likely due to some combination of hereditary and environmental factors.
Rosacea Types
There are several types of Rosacea including:
- Erythematotelangiectatic Rosacea: Hallmarks are redness and flushing
- Papulopustular Rosacea: Characterized by bumps and pustules
- Phymatous Rosacea: Characterized by thickening of the skin. Thickening of the skin on the nose is called rhinophyma, frequently seen in males with rosacea.
Many men in fact seek treatment at our Premier Skin Care Center because they have grown up with adult male relatives with very prominent rhinophyma and they wish to try and limit the severity of their early symptoms and signs.
- Ocular Rosacea: Which involves the eyelids and eyes and which left untreated may impair eyesight.
Rosacea Treatments
Currently, there is no cure for rosacea, but there are therapeutic treatments that can protect your skin, calm and soothe your symptoms and reduce the appearance of redness, blotchiness, pustular formation, and leave your complexion clearer and more balanced looking.
- Topical Medications include but are not limited to antibiotics, retinoid products, and metronidazole gel.
- Premier Skin Care Center is pleased to offer the prescription-based Rosaclear System which is a complete system that incorporates a therapeutic prescription component as well as products that reduce and minimize visible redness and blotchiness associated with rosacea. Metronidazole gel is indicated for the treatment of inflammatory papules and pustules of rosacea. Calming agents are also used to soothe your skin and minerals are used to balance your complexion.
- Oral doxycycline
- BBL Redness Removal. Broadband light technology utilizes the power of pulsed light to deliver phototherapy results. Specific settings will be selected to best treat your particular skin condition and severity. BBL therapy heats the broken or enlarged capillaries and selectively destroys the lesions. Premier Plastic Surgery utilizes the Sciton BBL, the most advanced phototherapy technology on the market today, which allows more accurate and effective treatment of rosacea.
Call Premier Skin Care Center today to learn more about the best rosacea treatments to treat your individual symptoms.