The problem with the rosacea treatment is that it does not actually work. Why? Well, basically, rosacea has no cure. The rosacea treatment schemes that are proposed to the sufferer by his or her attending physician have only one simple purpose: they will alleviate the symptoms. However, they will not eliminate the disease. The most common rosacea treatment options are the following ones:
- If the case of rosacea is not serious, your dermatologist might recommend some sort of mild moisturizers, cleaners, sunscreens and other products, all with the goal of improving the health of your skin, without using drugs that could do more harm then good.
- If the rosacea skin problem is getting out of hand, your attending physician can easily prescribe you a topical cream (easily applied directly on the affected area, once or twice a day, it helps to reduce the swelling, the feeling of pins pushing on your skin and the redness), some sort of oral antibiotics (this type of antibiotics have a very unusual characteristic - they have exceptional anti - inflammatory properties - for which they are used in the treatment of this disease, rather than their bacterial killing properties) or isotretinoin, a substance that is better used under the strict supervision of a specialist.
It might take a while, but the direst of rosacea symptoms will disappear. All that the patient is left of after a bout of treatment is a slight redness that, unfortunately, never goes away.
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