Rosacea

Rosaea treatment

 



Rosacea is a common yet poorly understood chronic skin condition that mainly affects the face. Symptoms begin with episodes of facial flushing.

People with rosacea may experience spots and persistent redness of their skin. Small blood vessels in the skin can become visible, and in the most severe cases the skin can thicken and enlarge, usually on and around the nose.

There is no cure for rosacea, but a range of treatments is available that can help to control the symptoms of the condition.

How Common Is Rosacea?

Rosacea is a condition that most commonly affects fair-skinned people from northern Europe. Most experts believe that 2-5% of people are affected by the condition.

Rosacea affects twice as many women as men (although it tends to be more serious in men). The symptoms usually begin between 30 and 50 years of age.

Triggers of rosacea

While the exact cause of rosacea is unknown, several triggers have been identified that may make the symptoms worse in some people.


These include:
  • exposure to sunlight,
  • stress,
  • cold weather,
  • hot drinks,
  • alcohol, and
  • eating certain foods.


Identifying and avoiding the triggers of rosacea can be a useful way of controlling the symptoms.

General measures

Rosacea before and after IPL
  • Where possible, reduce factors causing facial flushing.
  • Avoid oil-based facial creams. Use water-based make-up.
  • Never apply a topical steroid to the rosacea.
  • Protect yourself from the sun. Use light oil-free facial sunscreens.
  • Keep your face cool: minimize your exposure to hot or spicy foods, alcohol, hot showers and baths and warm rooms.

Rosacea Treatment Using IPL

We treat the redness and broken veins of Rosacea with Intense Pulse Light.

 

This delivers a pulse of red light to the broken blood vessels enabling them to heal up and fade away.

 


Flare ups of rosacea can be controlled by antibiotic lotions or tablets as well as avoiding certain foods and beverages and sunlight. The better active flare ups are controlled the fewer thread veins are left behind.

 

IPL is used to help with the remaining redness and broken veins.


How does it work?

It is believed that IPL has two actions that help in rosacea.

  • Firstly, red thread veins absorb the light energy, this makes them hot. This damage encourages the body to reabsorb them, improving appearance.
  • Secondly, the light energy warms the collagen fibres in the skin this stimulates new collagen and collagen remodelling, this improves the support of the small blood vessels which helps to delay the development of more thread veins.

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