ROSACEA

Rosacea is a chronic skin condition that mainly affects the face, causing redness visible blood vessels, bumps, and other symptoms. It is more common in women and people with lighter skin, but symptoms can be worse in men.. The first signs of rosacea include redness (blushing) across your nose, cheeks, forehead, chin, neck, and chest that comes and goes, usually lasting for a few minutes each time – your face may also feel warm, hot, or painful.. A burning or stinging feeling when using water or skincare products is also common.. The redness may be harder to see on brown or black skin. As rosacea gets worse, the skin on your cheeks, nose, and forehead may be red all the time. Rosacea may cause tiny broken blood vessels to appear on your skin that do not go away. You may get small pink or red bumps on your face, sometimes filled with a yellowish liquid, if you have rosacea. Other symptoms can include dry skin, swelling, especially around the eyes, yellow-orange patches on the skin, sore eyelids or crusts around roots of eyelashes – this could be blepharitis, and thickened skin, mainly on the nose (usually appears after many years) .

It’s not known what causes rosacea, but some things can make symptoms worse and common triggers for rosacea include:

• alcohol

• spicy foods

• hot drinks

• sunlight

• hot or cold temperatures

• exercise

• stress