Archive for March, 2016
Recent Rosacea Blog Posts
Has your doctor ever prescribed you something other than Metrogel, Soolantra, Finacea, Oracea or Mirvaso for rosacea? If so, then your doctor has given you an off-label prescription. Were you aware that only officially approved FDA treatments for rosacea are the 4 treatments from Galderma – Metrogel, Oracea, Soolantra & and Mirvaso, and one from […]
The off label use for Mirvaso gel is becoming better documented with the publication of a recent paper suggesting that Mirvaso was well tolerated by and offered good benefits to sufferers of Systemic Lupus, Dermatomyositis and Pityriasis Rubra Pilaris. These conditions share a symptom – erythema, that is the appearance of a red face. Only 3 patients […]
Proving once again that you shouldn’t rely on the mainstream media for your health news, blanket coverage today for a Danish statistical population study that uses the words Rosacea and Parkinson’s in the title. Even simply using the two words in the same headline implies some kind of link – reading the details of the […]
An edition of a clinical newspaper for optometrists – Helio.com/optometry’s Primary Care Optometry News features an article on the relationship between demodex infestation and ocular rosacea symptoms. The web site appears to have broken formatting, so is difficult to read, but here are some extracts you may find interesting. We know that the 3 main […]
A 2014 patent application has surfaced that points to a potential new family of topical rosacea treatments. Drs. Gallo, Nardo and Muto have filed for a patent covering the role of mast cell stabilizers in treating rosacea. The patent also covers the inhibition and stimulation of vitamin D3, cathelicidin and serine protease, and how the […]
