Comments on: collagenex: rosacea is a chronic inflammatory disease

By: M

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:33:24 +0000

Hi Rosacea Co-sufferers,

Too much direct sunlight, makeup, coffee, niacin, red wine, synthetic vitamin A, soy products, spicy food, wind and intense emotion can all encourage my facial skin’s painful inflammatory response.
In my 15 years of experimenting with Rosacea remedies, a low carb diet, the removal of palmitate A and addition of Omega 3 fish oil have given me the best results. The Omega 3 has been more effective than any of the rosacea remedies offered by the pharmaceutical companies and I’ve tried them all. Also, my husband and I have noticed that since taking the fish oil we do not feel any day-after-working-out aches and pains. This leads me to believe that the Omega 3 oils relieve inflammation, perhaps by balancing our diet and thus preventing the body’s inflammatory response to an imbalanced diet. I wish you all the best luck at finding what works for you.

By: sue

sue — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:00:27 +0000

I have suffered miserably with the redness, broken blood vessels, huge pustuals and ocular irritation for the last few years. It started immediately after a round of steroids for bronchits. I am fair complected and I remember my uncle and grandfather always had red faces so presume that I too am genetically set up for rosacea. The only thing that has helped lessen the pimples and redness has been Oracea combined with metrogel. The bad thing is as soon as I stop the oracea, everything comes back. I can not imagine taking the oracea for the rest of my life as I am an out doors person and do not like the limitations of taking this or any other prescription. Nothing in my diet has helped or made my systems worse. I have tried everything.
I do agree that there are far worse illnesses that people deal with everyday, so I am thankful for the Oracea.

By: sandy

sandy — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:43:26 +0000

I have a family history of rosacea (both sides of the family) and not suprisingly’ I’m Irish, both sides. Rosacea has been nicnamed ‘the curse of the celts’ I have had great relief using metrogel. I am a scientist and other than a food allergy, or irritation from alcohol, I really can’t see any food or outside source affecting or initiating rosacea, its just the way you were made, otherwise you wouldn’t see whole families with it like you do. I’m just glad there’s something you can use to try to improve it, because there are a lot of things you could have that there is nothing for it.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:45:33 +0000

Thanks for sharing some good thoughts, Patricia. I notice this article about the pulsed light treatment is old, yet my derm today didn’t mention it, but did give me a trial run of Oracea. Wonder what’s up with that.

The word so far is there is no root cause that can be cured for rosacea, but I think your ideas are good about trying those different things; I’m sure they can provide relief if not a cure. I for one agree with your thoughts on how artificial things we’ve added to our environment the past few decades have set us up for these illnesses.

By: Patricia A Almlie

Patricia A Almlie — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:05:03 +0000

Hi
I hope to try this and still work on the root cause. Some how I have a lack or inefficient working inflammation system.
My mom died of Amyloidosis and her family all have differing degrees of Rosacea. I have watched my skin change from childhood to early old age, noticing no matter what I do the Rosacea never go’s away. I am very good at using whatever products are available to me to reduce the “congestion” around my pores. This article helps to put into perspective the “congestion” I was at wit’s ‘s end to explain and combat. This will be a way to halt the damage of continuous congestion cycles. My goal is to find out and correct the nutritive elements lacking that initiate the cycling process.
I think it may started by infant formula instead of breast milk. The fat compounds needed at that time for development may find other avenues of satiation and thus set the body up for continued misdirected nutritional function.
I am not a scientist, just observations and reading about my condition plus living the condition. I also witnessed my daughter have the same cradle cap reaction, when I had to give up breast-feeding. What ever go’s wrong starts at that point in the body’s ability to process fat and fat based chemical functions.
The body’s fat storing process and things related to that
function go’s off and is difficult to adjust again.
One of my daughters has had great success by eating a gluten free diet. With elimination of sugar. Again
these are part of the fat storage of our body. I hope someone smarter than me figures it out