One of the difficulties of rosacea is that it is both multifactorial and multi symptomatic. Many different factors may cause and exacerbate rosacea. Rosacea symptoms can also look quite different ; from pusutles on your chin to itching in your eyes to swelling of your nose.
How do you rate your symptoms and how would your ratings compare with other sufferers ?
As a starting point there is the Standard Grading System for rosacea. This allows individual rosacea symptoms to be graded as absent, mild, moderate or severe. Whilst this grading system is based mostly on a visual qualitative assessment, it does mention the possible use of more advanced techniques.
In order to move beyond simple assessments that use qualifiers like `few’, `several’ and `many’, more quantitative methods are required.
Recent research is pointing towards being able to test for ocular rosacea, measure facial redness after IPL, measuring face blood vessels, measure skin barrier function and also search for a genetic marker for rosacea.
A recent research paper calls for both objective and subjective measures for quantifying rosacea.
As more research is undertaken I’d like to see more efforts in further quantifying rosacea beyond the `Standard Grading System’ and into something that will allow us to expertly diagnose and classify rosacea in the same way.
- Measuring Erythema (red face) after IPL
- clinically measuring facial blood vessels
- measuring broken blood vessels part 2
- diagnostic test for ocular rosacea
- measuring rosacea: objective and subjective measures needed
- measuring niacinamide (vitamin B3) moisturizer and skin barrier
- a genetic marker for rosacea ?
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I have been diagnosed with Rosacea (possibly)and prescribed Metronidazole Cream. It has been helping me, but I am unable to return to the internest who prescribed this as I don’t have Health Insurance. Now my right eye seems to be swelling. I can still see, but I have noticed that vision isn’t as great as it has been. I have prescription glasses and I am due for a check up. I have been seeing an Optomotrist (sp?) and need to see an Optomologist (sp?) next time. I am not sure if this related to the Rosacea as it started happening after my Rosacea flared up. I am also Diabetic type II. So I am concerned if there is any OTC relief? And if that would help my eye swelling to go down? Concerned….
Hi Sunshine,
There are quite a few good treatments for ocular rosacea, but before you start you do need to be sure that this is what you are suffering from. An opthamologist will be able to tell you for sure.
In the meantime, this is a reasonable introductory article – http://rosacea-support.org/treating-ocular-rosacea-from-aao.html or you can look through all of the recent news items on ocular rosacea here – http://rosacea-support.org/articles/ocular-rosacea
davidp.
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