Acne and Rosacea

Rosacea, or acne rosacea, is a skin disorder resulting to redness and pimples on the nose, forehead, cheekbones, and chin. The inflamed pimples and redness of rosacea can look a good deal like acne, but blackheads are almost never present.

Rosacea is most common in white women between the ages of 30 and 60. When it happnes in men, it tends to be more severe and may eventually cause the nose to become red and enlarged. Acne normally initiates around puberty. These hormones attune the activity and size of the oil-producing, or sebaceous glands that reside in the pores or hair follicles of the skin. The increased production of these hormones reasons the oil glands to get bigger in the areas where acne occurs.

The sebaceous glands make an oily substance named sebum. Sebum travels from the hair follicles to the surface of the skin. The lining of the wall of the hair follicle sheds skin cells, that then stick together with the sebum. The follicle gets choked, plugging up the opening in the surface of the skin.

Whiteheads and blackheads are the ensue of clogging of the pores. The sebum and cell debris synchronously contribute to the growth of bacteria that live in your pores. The body will naturally endeavor to clear the clogged pores by sending in certain specialized cells which invade the follicle to help clean it up.

However, in the process, the wall of the follicle can weaken and fissure, emptying the contents of the follicle into the surrounding tissue. When this occurs, swelling or redness may mature around the affected follicle, resulting in the larger bumps or pimples characteristic of acne.  

Acne and Rosacea prostrate sensitive skin makes the person to avoid the social gatherings. Acne vulgaris is can be because of overproduction of sebum, also due to androgen hormone problem. Stress enhances the Acne vulgaris.

Acne Rosacea or adult acne, is the problem of redness, dryness and itching of the skin, can get propelled by the spicy food, coffee and sun exposure. Acne and rosacea are common skin diseases which can present uniformly and both involve inflammation. Both can result in expressive cosmetic impairment and lead to quality of life decrements if not optimally treated.

The traditional approach for both diseases involves the use of topical therapy to treat inflammatory lesions in combination, when needed, with a systemic or topical antibiotic. An eminent issue in the management of both diseases at present is the need to reduce antibiotic usage due to the increasing problem of bacterial resistance.

One of the dawning treatment paradigms that is becoming increasingly useful as an antibiotic-sparing strategy is the use of procedural therapies in combination with medical management. Such procedural modalities involve lasers, intense pulsed light (IPL), and photodynamic therapies (PDT).