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It's Rosacea Awareness Month and this is what I’ve learned from 5 years with the skin condition

Rosacea is a common, yet misunderstood, long-term relapsing, inflammatory skin condition. It mostly affects the face, and sometimes other areas of skin. Constant redness can be accompanied by papules, pustules and telangiectasia (more commonly known as lesions, acne and dilated blood vessels). It is thought to be caused by a variety of unproven theories including blood vessel abnormalities, genetics, large numbers of Demodex Folliculorum (tiny mites) on the skin and bacteria found in the digestive system, to name a few.

A list of uncertainties often means you are left wide open to being misinformed or wrongly treated for several possible skin disorders, (like dermatitis or eczema…

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 It's Rosacea Awareness Month and this is what I’ve learned from 5 years with the skin condition

As The British Skin Foundation simply puts it, ‘the rash and the blushing associated with rosacea can lead to embarrassment, lowered self-esteem and self-confidence, anxiety and even depression’. For me, this couldn’t be more accurate.

10 Secrets Only People With Rosacea Know

More than 200 shared comments about their personal experiences of living with rosacea. While each case of rosacea is unique and symptoms vary widely from patient to patient, there were many commonalities among their experiences with the disease and how it impacted their social lives. Here are just some of the most common facts that they shared about living with rosacea.

11 People Describe What It's Really Like to Have Rosacea

Most of us assume that, if we ever dealt with skin-care problems, we'd leave them behind in our teen years (along with our questionable hairstyle choices). Unfortunately, that's not always the case. And sometimes the skin issues we develop when we're older can be a lot more confusing and challenging to deal with than the occasional zit.

National Rosacea Society

Since 1992, the NRS has made a difference in the way rosacea patients are treated and the way this widespread disorder is perceived and understood. T

Rosacea Support Group

Where the rosacea community meets to support each otherWhere the rosacea community meets to support each other.

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