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This just published abstract takes the demodex bacteria based irritation line of research a step further. Researchers in Ireland were able to show that demodex bacteria Bacillus oleronius proteins induced an “aberrant wound healing response” in  the cells irritated by scratch in a cornea. The aberration appeared as an elevated immune response and an chagnes in cells’ inability to move like normally …

A recently published abstract from the house of Gallo suggests a clue as to how doxycycline might work in treating rosacea. The suggestion from this research is that doxycycline has a newly discovered mechanism of action whereby it is able to prevent the activation of cathelicidin.

Cathelicidin has been in the rosacea news since around 2002, gaining publicity because of the discoveries like the fact …

As researchers try to further describe exactly what is going on in rosacea, more tiny bits of information arise. Here, this abstract is telling us that; Ferritin positive cells are much more prevalent in rosacea sufferers Severe rosacea sufferers have significantly more ferritin positive cells Blood peroxide levels are higher in rosacea sufferers …

Some more recent publicity from Internal Medicine News on the possible link between Small Intestinal Bacteria Overgrowth (SIBO) and Rosacea. In 2008 Rosacea News highlighted a paper that suggested that treating patients with rosacea and SIBO with Rifaximin would improve both their SIBO and rosacea symptoms. That posting has attracted a lot of interest, heading towards 100 comments. Two threads …

Firmly in the pure speculation category is a recent paper that proposes that pityriasis folliculorum (or demodex mite infestation) is the missing link in our understanding of rosacea. Plainly put, Dr. Forton, a dermatologist from Belgium, suggests that rosacea is a …