For a limited time, just by mentioning the Rosacea Support Group when you order Rosacea-LTD III you will receive a 10% discount on your order.

I have used these for a few years in the past and there are many rosacea-support members who have also found them useful.

If you have been holding back from ordering maybe this might make you want to give them a go. They offer a 120 day money back guarantee which is ample time to see if they will work for you.

Order online at: http://www.rosacea-ltd.com and when you order and they ask ;

“How did you learn about us (friend, family member, newspaper, magazine, television, radio, browsing the web, which support group, your medical doctor, other)?”

Just put Rosacea Support Group and you will be given a 10% discount.

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NOTE: This limited-time offer has now ended. Stay tuned for future deals through the Rosacea Support Group.

Now that Yahoo! has greatly improved their web site search we can finally search the nearly 8 years and 87,000 messages of rosacea-support.

Here is the list of ways you can search the archives for messages that have been posted to rosacea-support.

1. The native Yahoo!Groups Search

The search feature built in to our Yahoo!Group has been vastly improved recently. You can now search between specified dates, for a particular author (name or left-hand-side of email address), and for a string in the subject or body of any message. I’d recommend you start here on your internet search quest.

Yahoo!Groups Search

2. Google Groups Message Archive

Messages posted to the group since July 2004 are also searchable via the Google Groups message archive. This search is fast and accurate and will be familiar to those who regularly use Google.

Google Groups Search (use the `Search this group’ box on the top right)

3. Search at rosaceagroup.org

All online rosacea groups and interesting web sites are searchable via the RosaceaGroup search engine. You can restrict the search to just the archives of rosacea-support by using this link ; (you’ll notice that the string “http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/rosacea-suppo…” is set in the box that says `URL matches:’.

Rosacea Search Engine

4. Searching The Rosacea Forum

You can search through the 27,000 messages that have been posted to The Rosacea Forum by using the link below. You can restrict your search to a subforum, by author name.

Rosacea Forum Search 

5. Searching ESFB

Although there is no longer a specific rosacea forum at The Excessive Sweating Flushing and Blushing Forum (or ESFB for short), you can still search for interesting and useful flushing and blushing related messages that have been posted to ESFB ;

ESFB Search

I found one preparation, Acnomel Acne Cream that contains Resorcinol 2%, Sulfur 8%, alcohol 15%, bentonite, carbopol, fragrance, iron oxides, octoxynol-9, potassium hydroxide, propylene glycol, titanium dioxide, water.

Marianne Stoudemayer, RN, Yaxian Zhen, MD, PhD, Tracy Stoudemayer, Albert Kligman, MD, PhD, S.K.I.N. INC, Conshohocken, PA, United States

A combination topical treatment containing 8% sulfur and 2% resorcinol has been shown to be an effective treatment for acne vulgaris. To evaluate whether this combination drug is also helpful in rosacea, we recruited 15 female volunteers, aged 43 to 52 years, with classic centrofacial, erythematotelangiectatic rosacea. Ten subjects received the active treatment bid for 3 months and 5 subjects received vehicle for the same period. A number of bioengineering methods were used to assess facial skin at baseline and at 2, 4, 8, and 12 weeks. In the active group digital photography and videomicroscopy showed moderate reduction in the appearance of telangiectatic vasculature. Colorimetric measurement showed a small reduction in redness; blood flux imaging by a laser Doppler device showed decrease in blood flux. Compared with this, the control group (vehicle-treated) either showed no difference or worsening of rosacea posttreatment. The global assessment by the subjects also indicates the improvement of rosacea in the active group.
Author disclosure: Nothing disclosed at press time. Supported by Numark Labs Inc, Edison, NJ.

Poster Discussion Session P114, American Academy of Dermatology, 64th Annual Meeting, March 3-7 2006, San Francisco.

Supplement to Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology, March 2006, Volume 54, Number 3.

• JAAD Poster Abstracts Online

Buckwheat pillow-induced asthma and allergic rhinitis., Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Volume 90, Number 3, March 2003, pp. 355-358(4), Fritz SB, Gold BL. Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, The University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0380, USA.

BACKGROUND: Immunoglobulin (Ig)E-mediated hypersensitivity is a mechanism suggested to explain adverse reactions to buckwheat. This is the first reported case in the United States of a person who developed asthma and worsening allergic rhinitis after exposure to a buckwheat pillow.

OBJECTIVE: To describe a patient who developed asthma and worsening allergic rhinitis after exposure to a buckwheat pillow and to provide evidence that the adverse reaction was IgE-mediated.

METHODS: The patient underwent skin prick and ImmunoCAP testing (Pharmacia Diagnostics, Kalamazoo, MI) to buckwheat as well as skin prick testing to several environmental allergens. RESULTS: The patient showed a 4+ skin prick test response to buckwheat. He also showed 4+ positive skin prick responses to multiple trees, grasses, and weeds, Alternaria, Helminthosporium, dog, and histamine control and was 3+ positive to house-dust mites, Penicillium, Aspergillus, cat, and feather mix. His negative control was negative. His ImmunoCAP test for buckwheat-specific IgE was class 4, or strongly positive. He had normal spirometry values. Performance of house-dust mite avoidance measures did not result in improvement of the patient’s symptoms. Removal of the patient’s two buckwheat pillows resulted in resolution of his asthma and improvement of rhinitis symptoms.

CONCLUSIONS: The positive skin prick and ImmunoCAP test to buckwheat along with the positive clinical response to buckwheat pillow elimination support an IgE-mediated mechanism in explaining our patient’s buckwheat pillow-induced asthma and allergic rhinitis.

• Abstract Online
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The Rosacea Support Group would like to give a huge welcome to Dr. Jerry Darm.

Dr. Darm is known for his usage of Photoderm and also his Genesis Laser, using a different approach compared to other well known Photoderm and IPL practitioners.

Recently Dr. Darm has developmed a new three-pronged protocol to treat rosacea. This protocol involves a compressed treatment period, forcing a flush during treatment session and the usage of the genesis laser on the whole face.

The development of a compressed treatment protocol has raised some interest by rosacea sufferers. Concentrating treatments over a shorter period of time seems to allow more clearing sooner. Treating more often than the usual 2-3 week interval means fewer trips to Oregon, quicker resolution, and the theoretical advantage of reduced angiogenesis (regrowth of new blood vessels).

The second interesting part of Dr. Darms treatment protocol is the aggressive induction of flushing during treatment sessions.

Finally the third unique part of his treatment protocol involves the use of the genesis laser which adds another wavelength to the treatment sessions (1064 ND YAG).

In the period between treatments, Dr. Darm likes periostat to help with the inflammation. Periostat has the advantage of being well tolerated and unlikely to introduce antiobiotic resistence problems.

See Also

• all of Dr. Darms posts to Rosacea Support

The following search form will allow you to search Rosacea Support, Rosacea Forum and ESFB Channel as well as other established rosacea web sites.

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