PS If you work in an office/bar/etc and have a flare up get some ice and hold it with your tongue to the roof of your mouth this will help to eliminate the redness.

Chad – good idea to list foods that are more alkaline for the body, but tomato and citrus fruits are not alkaline to the body & corn is one of the top ten allergy foods and should be avoided, along with the grains. Remove all of this from your diet and you should have even better results. Meat is very acidic to the body. Try cutting out all red meat and chicken. Fish is so contaminated by our polluted oceans that most fish is high in mercury and other toxins. At least try eliminating and getting your skin cleared up before you add any of the acidic toxic foods back in.

Someone mentioned about Chinese. There is also Ayurvedic medicine too that talks about too much heat in the body, and skin and health problems it causes. I think Deepak Chopra wrote a really good book and how to tell what type your body is.

Some people can get away with eating anything, some people just can’t and it always shows in their skin. The liver has a lot to do with how healthy we are. Cleansing the liver should be a must too. Burdock Root is excellent for cleansing the blood.

What is working the best for me right now and I wish I would have thought of this years ago, is make-ups. If you live in the US this may be helpful as far as other countries not sure where you can purchase these. I sometimes use PHYSICIANS FORMULA CONCEALER TWINS [get the green] sold at Walmart. Also at walmart you can get COVER GIRL CLEAN NORMAL SKIN [comes in a little glass container and is a slightly thick lotion, works ok, but doesnt last really long. What I have been using most lately is from Kmart and it is called RIMMEL LONDON LASTING FINISH 25 HOUR FOUNDATION, and it does seem to last for a while [certainly not 25 hrs] but doesnt wear off as easy as the cover girl. All of the above mentioned products are fairly cheap in cost, but will have to be reapplied often. But works great if you have an indoor meeting or something that isnt going to last long, or just go to the restroom and reapply as needed. I am going to order Sheer Cover advertised on tv soon and see how it works, it looks like a good product at a fair price. I just want to find something that will cover thicker and last longer.

Whenever you are going outdoors use a good sunscreen with zinc, as it has seemed to help with my redness more than any sunscreen without zinc.

As far as all the claims to watch what you eat, it does not pertain to me, I eat all kinds of different foods and see no difference in what my diet is. My biggest triggers are sun, wind, cold, hot, mainly sudden temperature changes is my worst trigger, coming in from the cold, getting out of a hot shower, etc.

Remember, what happens with rosacea is that you veins and capillaries are coming to the surface of your skin, there is no medicine or lotion that is going to remove the capillaries and veins away from the surface of your skin. My best advice at this point of my knowledge is to: protect your skin as much as you can to help prevent it from getting worse [ a good sunscreen with zinc] stop wasting money on redness reduction creams and pills and start saving that money to put towards IPL. Just get a good make-up and your confidence level will increase dramatically, believe me the first time I put make up on and saw the redness disappear instantly, I said to myself why didnt I think of this sooner. So the moral of my story for now is: STOP HAVING A RED FACE AND WORRYING ABOUT WHICH TREATMENT TO USE, JUST COVER IT UP WITH MAKE UP FOR NOW AND SAVE FOR IPL OR LASER, AND IN THE MEAN TIME YOUR PROBLEM IS SOLVED WITH THE MAKE UP. At least that is my philosophy for now and I have had this terrible problem my whole life, so believe me I know what I am talking about.

Eat the following foods:
Cooling Foods which reduce heat signs:

Apple, banana, pear, persimmon, cantaloupe, watermelon, tomato, all citrus, lettuce, radish, cucumber, celery, button mushrooms, asparagus, Swiss chard, eggplant, spinach, summer squash, Chinese cabbage, bock choy, broccoli, cauliflower, sweet corn, zucchini, soy milk, soy sprouts, tofu, tempeh, mung beans and their sprouts, alfalfa sprouts, millet, barley, wheat and its products, amaranth, kelp and all seaweed, spirulina, wild blue-green, oyster-shell calcium, wheat and barley grass, kudzu, yogurt, crab, clam.

Let me know if it helps.