flushing

[domboride]

Hi there, I guess I have one of those newbie questions.

I have Rosacea, and my main problem is that my nose is chronically red, and at the worst situations, the nose will be covered with P&P's.

When browsing through the Rosacea-pages here, I see that there is much focus on minimizing the number of flushes, but I do not understand why? Will a high "flushing-frequency" make the Rosacea become worse? The strange thing is that I do not consider that I flush that really often, but my nose is constantly red, and that is my main problem.

[Brady Barrows]

Probably the primary theory on what causes rosacea is now the genetic vascular theory, which basically means that the heart of the rosacea beast is a disorder of the blood vessels at the microvascular level and is connected to flushing. You can read about this theory and its proponents at this url >

http://www.rosaceans.com/html/cause.html

I have written extensively about flushing at this url >

http://www.rosaceans.com/html/flushing.html

Many rosaceans are obsessed with avoiding flushing at all costs, including ETS, avoiding anything that may trigger a flush. See this url about ETS >

http://www.rosaceans.com/html/ets.html

If you haven't seen a dermatologist about your nose, I suggest you do and read this url >

http://www.rosaceans.com/html/rhinophyma.html

You may have pre-phymatous rosacea and you need to treat it if this is the case. Hope this helps.

[domboride]

Thankyou for that information Brady. It really sorted things out.
I'm a bit worried that my rednose will turn into a rhinophyma in the future.

For now, as soon as I get problems with the nose turning really red, and that P&P's appear on it, I go to my doctor and he gives me tetracycline and metronidazol or sulfur in essex. After some days treatment the nose looks really better, so I feel rather comfortable using that treatment.

But the best thing of course would be to handle the disease by natural ways, i.e. improving my health by eating and lifestyle habits.