What are the most common symptoms of rosacea?

What are the most common symptoms of rosacea?

Rebecca Fitzgerald (Dermatologist) gives expert video advice on: What can I do to help prevent rosacea?; What are some of the common rosacea triggers? and more...

The most common thing that you'll see in rosacea is redness. Occasionally that will flare into pimples and pustules. There are no blackheads in rosacea, which is the biggest difference between it and acne vulgaris. Instead you see these little superficial pustules or red bumps often right around the mouth and nose. In addition to that, you can get a lot of red rimmed inflammation around your eyes; a condition called blepharitis. Sometimes in older men you can see a condition called rhinophyma, where their nose will become very oily and enlarged, with lot of engorged blood vessels, sometimes becoming twice its original size. This is not something that happens in women, it's a testosterone mediated affect and it is something that is easier to prevent than to get rid of. For that reason it is a wise idea to keep your rosacea under control.