Rosacea Symptoms and Treatment

Treatments are tailored based on sub-type and severity:

•		Treatment of facial blood vessels, flushing, neural burning, papules, pustules, acne.
•		Utilization of angiogenesis inhibitors during treatment.
•		Utilization of the latest topicals and oral medications.
•		Thorough evaluation via Rosacea Specialist, Blushing Specialist and Surgeon.
•		One center that understands the complexity of flushing disorders and utilizes the latest medical equipment to treat the underlying cause of this life altering inflammatory disorder.
•		Rosacea treatment utilizing topical drug delivery systems such as iontophoresis and sonophoresis to safely deliver novel medications that act at the cellular level to inhibit rosacea flushing and triggers (near-future application at the Institution).

What is Rosacea?
 
Rosacea is a progressive vascular disorder that affects the facial skin and eyes. It usually starts out quite innocently as a mild flush across the nose, cheeks, chin, and forehead. During the early stages, this flush comes and goes, seeming to have a mind of its own. As the disorder progresses, facial redness becomes more intense, taking on the appearance of mild sunburn or windburn. In areas of facial redness, tiny broken blood vessels and red bumps may also become visible. In the moderate to severe stages, facial inflammation usually intensifies, resulting in permanent redness, swelling, and burning sensations. In the most advanced cases, rosacea can cause facial disfigurement and disabling burning sensations.  Rosacea affects millions of people worldwide. In the United States an estimated 20 million Americans are afflicted by this disease (1 in 20 people).

Symptoms

Frequent Facial Flushing
Facial flushing is the classic symptom of rosacea. In all simplicity, flushing is the result of increased blood flow through dilated facial blood vessels. During a flush, a rosacea sufferer’s face can turn various shades of red depending on the amount of blood flowing through the skin. A sufferer may experience a fire-red face during intense flushes, a mildly-red face during moderate flushes, or a barely noticeable pinkish-hue during mild flushes. Depending on the stage of rosacea, a facial flush can be transient (lasting only for seconds), or long-standing (lasting for days, weeks or months).
Facial Redness
Facial redness is one of the most common symptoms of rosacea. This is caused by hundreds of tiny dilated blood vessels near the surface of the facial skin.
Facial Telangiectasia (tel-an-jek-tasia)
These are tiny broken blood vessels that are permanently fixed in the dilated state. These blood vessels take on the appearance of fine red lines coursing through the surface of the facial skin.
Ocular Rosacea
More than half the rosacea sufferers that present with facial symptoms also have ocular rosacea. Ocular rosacea is primarily vascular in origin, but secondary causes may exacerbate the condition. Symptoms include inflammation of the eye surface, inflammation of the eye lids, scales or crusting on eye lids and eye lashes, blockage of the meibomian glands (blepharitis), dry eye syndrome, excessive tearing and blood shot eyes.
Facial Skin Hyper-Reactivity
Facial skin hyper-reactivity is caused by sensitive, inflamed blood vessels near the surface of the skin. These blood vessels dilate very easily to topical triggers and physical insults.
Lumpy-Bumpy Facial Skin
Uneven skin texture, or lumpy-bumpy facial skin is caused by dilated blood vessels, localized swelling, mild fibrosis, and leakage of inflammatory cells into the superficial layers of the skin.
Facial Papules
Facial papules are small, red bumps about the size of a pinhead. These bumps are caused by vascular flushing. Over time, flushing results in leakage of inflammatory cells out of the blood vessels and into the dermal skin.
Facial Pustules
Facial pustules are small red bumps with pus. These bumps are caused by vascular flushing in areas around sebaceous glands. Over time, flushing results in leakage of inflammatory cells out of the blood vessels and into the dermal skin. These inflammatory cells then migrate towards the sebaceous gland or pore, resulting in inflammatory pustules.
Facial Burning Sensations
Facial burning sensations are caused by activation of sensory pain nerves in the facial skin. These pain fibers are primarily triggered by the heat associated with increased blood flow. These nerve endings can also be activated by inflammatory substances that leak through blood vessels. After chronic activation, pain nerve fibers may become sensitized to other triggers such as skincare products and environmental insults (i.e., sun, wind, heat, and cold). Facial burning sensations can become severe in some sufferers, causing debilitation.

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Treatment

Our staff of Rosacea Specialists, Flushing Experts and Surgeons understand the effect that Rosacea has on quality of life. The Institute’s main objective is to actively treat the underlying heart of this neuro-vascular disorder so that rosacea sufferers don’t have to worry about rosacea symptoms and avoidance of triggers. This can now be achieved through the expert use of our RosaceaMultiPass™ technique and a combination of the latest vascular laser devices (Sciton BBL™ – the next generation Intense Pulse Light System that treats blood vessels & sebaceous glands, 1064 Super Yag, and Erbrium Arctic Peel). These devices in combination with pre-flushing protocols, utilization of angiogenesis inhibitors, and the latest topical and oral rosacea medications can give rosacea sufferers complete clearance of their rosacea symptoms, significantly reduce bouts of facial flushing & burning, and remove or greatly reduce rosacea triggers.

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For more information call 210-494-7972 or email:  rosacea@rosaceainstitutetexas.com