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Red and hot skin - what's the cause?
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ok, this is freaking me out a bit. but i guess it's better to catch it early. i'm also washing my face with shu uemura and it gets red and hot after i wash it with cold water. haven't tried with hot yet, but i'm very reluctant to that idea. i live in London and we have these annoying super hot and super cold separate taps. how annoying and devastating for the skin.
sarahf, how old where you when it started? -
Alla, I probably had it for years & was treating it as "redness". I finally saw a derm & withing a week I was looking better with the Metrogel.
There are a lot of things that can cause a rosacea to flare; including Chamomile, Salicylic Acid etc so it is imperative to discuss this with your derm.
Unfortunately, alcohol & spicy food are a strict No No! -
i do think i have it as well, as both my parents are in their early 40s and exhibit pretty obvious symptoms (especially my dad) and rosacea is genetic. my concern is how the treatment for it will interfere with my skincare routine as I have dry flaky skin and I read that the treatments dry it out even more.
and i know it has flare ups and i remember my mum thought it was an allergic reaction to something and at the time she was using chanel and dior skincare, now she uses reasonably priced polish brand that is sold only in pharmacies and her skin recovered. now she is a firm believer that price doesn't mean anything. -
It just started maybe 6 or 8 weeks ago, I'm in my early 40's. I called made an appointment with the dermatologist about the flushing/redness/stinging/sensitivity (suspecting it was rosacea), and by the time he saw me, I had my first little papule to show him (it literally appeared right before the appointment). So mine progressed kind of quickly from the time the bright redness started until I got a first papule. But looking back, I have been flushing pink at times for years, it just wasn't an angry red flush and it didn't sting. I had never had sensitive skin before at all--people used remark because I could rub my face briskly with a towel and it never was sore. Suddenly, everything was irritating me so I knew it was a change for me.
Don't be freaked out. In some people it never progresses to more than mild severity (my aunt said that was the case for her). I so far (knock, knock) haven't had much in the way of the "bumps," just mild ones (small papules, no pustules). Women tend to have different symptoms than men (who are more likely than women to get thickening in the underlying tissue such as in the nose). I was a little discouraged at first, but then I felt good I was catching it before it progressed any further. And I'm so far only needing a topical to manage it. This is a good time to have it--a lot of things on the market to treat it (topicals and orals). -
P.S. there are lots of treatments out there. I was annoyed because I asked the pharmacist was the cream suitable for oily skin, and they said yes, and warned me the cream would dry me out--actually it made me feel like an oil slick at first. Definitely no drying effect for me. If you have flakiness, it could be seborrheic dermatitis which often coexists with rosacea. One kind of cream used for rosacea is I think also effective for seborrheic dermatitis. So who knows, you might be less flaky using it than you were before. Also, your skin may adapt to it--I'm not as bothered by the oily effect now as I was at first, and I've read that people who have dryness and stinging at first often adapt. Perseverance is the key. I started by using it once a day with light application and then increased to twice a day as prescribed.
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