Rosacea treatment

adelight

Do you have any trigger foods that make it flare up? My mum finds avoiding the common ones like caffeine, bananas, chocolate really helps.

Gers

adelight wrote: »

Do you have any trigger foods that make it flare up? My mum finds avoiding the common ones like caffeine, bananas, chocolate really helps.

Nothing I could put my finger on. Don't eat bananas any more, don't eat much chocolate and mostly have decaf coffee and hardly any tea.

If I didn't wash my face for some reason, mostly Sundays when I tend to slob around in pjs, then that was a guaranteed breakout on Monday. So, even if I did my slob act I would wash my face as otherwise it was 3-4 days of misery.

As I said, can't decide which treatment is the effective one or if it's the combination but I am so :j:j that the symptoms have been relieved and I can face the world without weeping lumps on my chin.

wannabehermit

Hi this is a really interesting thread as my DH is a rosacea sufferer. Is it oxytetracycline that you are on? He has been on these for some time, he has found that you do need regular breaks from them though. So he takes them for about a year, then has a year or so off before needing to take them again as taking them for too long actually makes the breakouts worse. His last break from them was about 2 years but he has been back on them now for about 6 months or so. He also gets several creams and shampoo on prescription. The one cream/mousteriser that he did find that helped massively has stopped being made. Typical eh!

We have found that his is mostly stress triggered, could yours be? Also he is a migraine sufferer and having done some research we found that there does seem to be a link (although drs in the UK won't admit that).

Tomatoey and cheesey foods are a big trigger too, so the days following pizza or pasta are hard ones for him.

Gers

wannabehermit wrote: »

Hi this is a really interesting thread as my DH is a rosacea sufferer. Is it oxytetracycline that you are on? He has been on these for some time, he has found that you do need regular breaks from them though. So he takes them for about a year, then has a year or so off before needing to take them again as taking them for too long actually makes the breakouts worse. His last break from them was about 2 years but he has been back on them now for about 6 months or so. He also gets several creams and shampoo on prescription. The one cream/mousteriser that he did find that helped massively has stopped being made. Typical eh!

We have found that his is mostly stress triggered, could yours be? Also he is a migraine sufferer and having done some research we found that there does seem to be a link (although drs in the UK won't admit that).

Tomatoey and cheesey foods are a big trigger too, so the days following pizza or pasta are hard ones for him.

I'm on Erythromycin and only now on my second 2 months. Don't think mine is stress related and don't suffer from migraine. And no problems with tomato or cheese.

Perhaps it's down to each individual. Has your husband tried the tea tree oil?

terra_ferma

j.e.j. wrote: »

I have heard about the possibility of mites triggering off this condition. It is unproven, as you say, but perhaps worth looking into, still.

There is a website for acne/rosacea sufferers (perhaps you've come across it already?) which is run by and for rosacea sufferers:
www.acne-rosacea.co.uk

HTH

That lookes like a company that sell products for rosacea, did you mean this by any chance?
http://www.rosacea.org/index.php

Edit: this link is american, unfortunately. Looks like the UK group lost the use of the domain name and a business has taken advantage of that. Pity.

M.Holloway

You can get laser treatment for Rosacea to reduce the redness among other treatments.

I've not heard of Tea Tree being used before to treat Rosacea but am interested to see if it really does work.

Are you sure it's not just a false-positive as you're treating it with anti-biotics too?