Should rosacea patients fight through irritation caused by topicals?
Most rosacea sufferers should not fight through irritation because this usually aggravates the underlying vascular disorder. For this reason, rosacea experts instruct their patients to never fight through facial irritation or redness. Medical experts instruct patients with sensitive skin that any form of irritation makes the skin more vulnerable to subsequent irritation. Recovery of sensitive skin and blood vessels only occurs when exposure to topical irritants is stopped, and the skin is allowed to heal. Fighting through irritation can set into motion a disturbing series of events: physicians prescribe topical irritants to treat rosacea bumps and uneven skin texture .. these irritants increase facial inflammation and flushing .. physicians then prescribe topical steroids to reduce the facial inflammation .. these steroids thin the facial skin, weaken the blood vessels, and cause vascular hyper-reactivity. This results in significant progression of the entire vascular disorder. This vi
