The Rosacea Forum: Papulopustular,
Telangiectatic, and Phymatous Subtypes

A new survey of people with rosacea offers new insight into their experiences with different treatments for their skin condition and with their health care providers.
The survey was conducted in 2006 and published in a recent issue of the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology. It included more than 2,800 people with diagnosed cases of rosacea. [...]

People with rosacea must be careful with their choices of skin-care products, as some can contain ingredients that may trigger a skin reaction and a worsening of their symptoms. Yet there is little data on contact allergy in rosacea patients.
“This is astonishing,” note the authors of a recent study on the topic in the Journal [...]

A new study published in the journal Cutis discusses the decreased sensitivity of some bacterial organisms, such as Propionibacterium acnes, to antibiotics commonly prescribed by dermatologists. As topical antibiotics are a common part of any treatment regimen for rosacea, this study is of great importance to those in the rosacea community.
The article, by University of [...]

The emotional suffering rosacea may cause those who have it can be severe, but a new study also showed that the cost of rosacea to taxpayers pay also be significant. A study by Ohio State University researchers tracked 2,587 patients with rosacea prescriptions to follow their refill adherence. The study showed some interesting results. According [...]

In certain cases, the papulopustular and telangiectatic components of rosacea are unresponsive to traditional antibiotics treatments. In a recent study, Larson AA, Goldman MP, in conjunction with Dermatology Section of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, have presented a case that was unresponsive to treatment with antibiotics.
In response, they utilized the multiplexed laser for treatment [...]

For many years the tetracycline drugs have been prescribed for sufferers of rosacea, though we were not exactly sure why these drugs were effective. The conventional wisdom has been that this class of drugs works on rosacea due to its anti-inflammatory properties, as well as having some impact on papulopustular rosacea and its associated acne-like [...]