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Recent Rosacea Blog Posts
This paper from Drugs R&D, details an extensive treatment regimen undertaken to deal with a patient with a severe case of rosacea. Click the photo above for a larger view of their symptoms and how they improved over time. Note that only one side of their face was treated with Mirvaso in the hours before […]
This paper details a somewhat exotic combination therapy: oral azithromycin and topical tacrolimus. It offers an alternative to the more common doxycycline + metrogel combination. The authors mention that this is not a first line therapy; “a combination of oral azithromycin and 0.1% tacrolimus ointment was used in the current case as an alternative therapy […]
One often asked question by newly diagnosed sufferers is `can you get rosacea on areas other than your face’. The usual answer is no; you normally only see rosacea symptoms on the flushing zone areas in the central areas of your face. Extrafacial Rosacea is a Thing This paper slightly dispels this idea with a […]
As a followup to the recent note pathogen infection (Chlamydia pneumoniae) cause theory, comes a recently published paper, the first to address Cpn and Rosacea. This paper is very preliminary, but at least now Cpn is on the map. When a paper ends with “preliminary data suggest the need for further investigation” it means that the research can […]
This study shows that one of the effects of Azithromycin is to suppress reactive oxygen species, one of the chemicals involved in the inflammatory pathway. Other systemic antibiotics, macrolides and non-antibiotic doses of doxycycline have also been shown to be helpful in treating the inflammation of rosacea. The inflammatory pathway that leads to rosacea is an interesting area […]
