Comments on: collagenex: rosacea is a chronic inflammatory disease

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