Rosacea treatment Products

Acne-rosacea.co.uk - Aloe Vera skin care regimen. Includes testimonials.
China Mystique - Offering FaceDoctor soap.
Clearem - Lotion developed by a chemical engineer specifically for this disorder.
Joy-Full Holistic Remedies - Offering a book which suggests easy-to-use remedies.
Linda Sy Skincare - Offering cleansers, makeup, moisturizers, and skin cream.
Rosacea Care - Offering gel, cleanser, eye cream and Moisturizer.
Rosacea-Ltd III - Offering external treatment disks.
The Sher System - Offering supplements as a treatment option.
Skin Care Products - Pevonia RS2 cream, lotion, and cleanser.

Review of Rosacea Diet

Brady Barrow's rosacea diet has been around for a couple of years now. If you ever wanted to know what it was all about then hopefully this text will be of interest.
So what do you actually get when you purchase a copy of the diet ? you get an outline of what foods are claimed to cause rosacea, and a suggested list of foods to eat. A couple of books are suggested as supporting information for the diet. Interestingly some dieting books, including an internationally well known diet is incompatible with the rosacea diet - being full of offending foods.
The text contains a full listing of suggested foods to eat for 30 days. The remainder of the text of the diet is a curious collection of email exchanges from the diet's creator and people interested in trying it.
Brady points out several times on his web site that his diet is hard to stick to. The foods that you are asked to give up won't kill you, but for sure it will take a significant amount of self control - especially for those used to a modern western diet. Brady is also clear in what he isn't saying. The diet is not claimed to be a cure. So given that it is difficult and not claimed to cure you, what does it have to offer you ?
Many have commented on the diets author's desire to charge for the diet. One could say that people will only really value something that has some cost. This argument works for the rosacea-support group at large - many learned people have posted useful information to the group, but as it has come at no cost to list members, the value is missed. The alternate argument is that if you pay for something, you want it to work, and when you pay for it, your perceived rights suddenly expand. As the amount asked for is small I don't see this as a real issue. To take this point further, if you read the diet, and the pages of comments on the web site, it represents a couple of years of answering the same questions for the diet's author. Anyone who charges such a small fee, and sticks at it for a couple of years must really believe in what they are doing.
I attempted to gain some feedback from anyone who has tried the diet. I collected 85 email addresses from the diet itself and the web site and asked them for any feedback. Given that the best possible result I could hope for would only amount to anecdotal evidence, I was interested in as much feedback as possible. Brady tells us that he has had more than 500 people try his diet. Although I have only tried 85 names, and over time email addresses spoil, it is at least a small sample from which to make some comments. From these 85 addresses I got 17 bounces, 1 said it made their skin awful, 6 never tried it in the end, 1 said it was too hard, 3 said it did nothing and 4 said that they had a good response and believe that the diet was what made the difference for them.
Whilst the feedback was quite small the 4 good responses are an encouragement that for some the diet is worthwhile.

Holistic Treatment of Rosacea

Steve Coward, N.D., of Asheville Natural Health and Homeopathy, believes there is a better way to approach rosacea. "The only real conventional treatment that works consistently is oral antibiotics. But no definitive bacterial cause for the disease has been established. The problem is generally the result of an imbalance in the body." He goes on to compare treating rosacea with antibiotics to keeping a sick person in a plastic bubble. The person may never get worse, but has he really been helped? Dr. Coward believes that homeopathic remedies, changes in diet, and occasional supplementation can help to correct imbalances in the body, but he stresses that each treatment must be tailored to the individual.

The National Rosacea Society refused to comment on the efficacy of any holistic treatments, and only stated that based on surveys conducted by their organization, the non-medical treatment favored by the majority of rosacea sufferers was avoiding triggers. I do believe this makes a difference. However, I know that anyone who lives in the real world encounters all of the triggers mentioned, so seeking the help of a qualified naturopathic doctor, holistic esthetician, or homeopath, will probably be the most helpful solution.

Use of Retinoids and Tretinoin

Thoughts by Geoffrey Nase on the use of Retinoids and Tretinoin for the treatment of rosacea.

There is considerable controversy over the use of retinoids and tretinoin. In my eight years as a rosacea sufferer and one who haslistened carefully to thousands of rosacea sufferers and clinically seen many rosacea sufferers at IU Medical School withDermatologists, it is my opinion that retinoids and tretinoin haveNO place in rosacea treatment of any subtype. Acclimation of the skin, blood vessels and nerves rarely occurs and then you are stuckwith a bright red flushed, burning face. This is where the articles fall short. Their response to these patients who are now in physical pain is, "Well, we dont know what to do -- you should gosee a neurologist".

Then you are classified as having idiopathic flushing syndromes and idiopahtic neural burning syndromes(idiopathic means of no known origin), when in fact it is just rosacea in a ticked off state. These rosacea sufferers then fall through the cracks for years.

There are many documented articles from the Mayo Clinic, from the Rosacea Experts such as Dr. Wilkin, etc. about these cases of angry face syndrome, burning face syndrome, sun burn like responses, etc. to those physicians whounwisely treat patients with retinoids.Rosacea sufferers at all stages still need to be very wary of rosacea medical advice because physicians are still "experimenting"with us and if you are on the bottom of the learning curve, aphysician's treatment can turn a cosmetic disorder into a totally different beast.

When you hear retinol and tretinoin and benzoyl peroxide, perk your ears up, take a step back and approach withcaution. We have several hundred if not over a thousand members onthis one board who have fought through the retinol and tretinoin-induced irritation because of the sun damage theory (an unproven theory where sun supposedly caused damage to blood vessels and collagen and this can be reversed by these products). If this was truly the case, then deep chemical peels or deep CO2 laser peels to remove all the decades of sun damage would cure rosacea.......to my knowledge not one single case has ever improved with these deep sun damage treatments; to the contrary, these are the rosacea sufferers living a painful existence. As you will find out, avoiding rosacea irritants is just as important as actively treating the disorder. I literally shutter for rosacea sufferers at the hundreds of OTC retinol products that are causing cumulative damage to their skin for temporary changes in wrinkles and skin smoothness.

Rosacea is a genetic disorder that is broughtto the top via cumulative insults. This is known. Rosacea is also much more prevalent then it was several decades ago -- is this from skin care products designed for wrinkles, smaller pores and acne?