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Why, Oh Why Did I Get Rosacea ?

I hear you.

My skin was great. I have had beautiful skin all my life, but now wham! rosacea has reared its ugly head.

Well the NRS Blog has an answer to this plea. It is all about your risk profile. If you are over 30 with fair skin, have a relative with rosacea and are of Northern European Ancestry then the statistics suggest that you are …

 

Gallo: beta-defensins coordinate Skin Barrier Injuries

This short abstract from Dr. Richard Gallo is an introduction to an article further on in the journal edition from Dr. Ahrens et al. Gallo’s interest is piqued by the possibility of a coordinated defense effort from the permeability and antimicrobial barriers of the skin. Ahrens was able to show that certain Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), called beta-defensins were upregulated (i.e. they …

 

Galderma, with Oracea looking for Inflammatory Pathway Markers

Seemingly wanting to help answer the question How do tetracyclines help Rosacea? Galderma has announced a large trial to measure the changes in inflammatory pathway markers when you take Oracea.

Whilst the trial only directly mentions LL-37 and MMP I would expect other well known markers to be measured as well.

If the researchers include markers that can be proven to be indicative of rosacea disease, …

 

Neurogenic Rosacea: a new subtype for those with dysfunctional facial nerves

A just-published paper in the Archives of Dermatology is calling for the recognition of a new rosacea subtype – Neurogenic Rosacea.
Standard forms of rosacea
In 2002 the National Rosacea Society sponsored Rosacea Expert  Committee proposed the existence of 4 main rosacea subtypes. Rosacea sufferers are familiar with the designations of Erythematotelangiectatic, Papulopustular, Phymatous and Ocular Rosacea. The subtypes were based on …

 

What role do micro-organisms in play in Rosacea?

This abstract promises to tell us everything we need to know about the possible role of micro-organisms in the way that the disease Rosacea starts and develops. Even though the role of published research is not to provide reading material for the general public, I still look to journal …