What is Acne Rosacea?

Rosacea is a skin condition that affects elements of the face. Symptoms will include facial flushing, redness, spots, skin thickening, and eye issues like dry eyes and sore eyelids.

What is Acne Rosacea?

American Academy of dermatology describes acne rosacea in detail.

There are numerous signs and symptoms that acne rosacea has four subtypes:

• Erythematotelangiectatic rosacea acne: Redness on skin, flushing and visible blood vessels.
• Papulopustular rosacea acne: Redness, swelling, and acne-like breakouts.
• Phymatous rosacea acne: Skin thickens and has a unsmooth texture.
• Ocular rosacea acne: Eyes red and irritated, eyelids may be swollen, and person might have what appears like a sty. 

Types of Rosacea-

Some individuals have more than one acne rosacea subtype at a similar time. Every subtype requires completely different treatment.

Subtype 1: Redness on skin, flushing, visible blood vessels on face

Signs or symptoms

• Flushing and redness within the centre of our face.
• Visibly broked red blood vessels (spider veins).
• Swollen skin.
• Skin could be very sensitive.
• Sting and burn on skin.
• Dry skin, roughness or scaling.
• Have a tendency to flush or blush a lot easily than others.

Subtype 2: Acne-like breakouts

Signs or symptoms

• Acne-like breakouts, sometimes where our skin is (become) very red.
• Acne-like breakouts tend to come back and go.
• Oily skin.
• Skin could also be very sensitive.
• Skin could burn and sting.
• Visibly broked red blood vessels (spider veins).
• Raised patches of skin known as plaques (plaks).

Subtype 3: Skin Thickening

Signs or symptoms

This subtype is rare. Once it will occur, the person usually has signs and symptoms of another subtype of acne rosacea. The signs of this subtype are:

• Bumpy texture to the skin.
• Skin starts to  become thicken, especially common on the nose. Once the skin thickens on the nose, it's known as rhinophyma rosacea (rye-NO-fie-ma).
• Skin could thicken on the chin, forehead, cheeks, and ears.
• Visible broken blood vessels looks.
• Pores look massive or large.
• Oily skin.

Who gets rosacea?

Rosacea is common. Most of the people who get acne rosacea are:

• Aged 30-50 years.
• Fair-skinned, and sometimes have blonde hair and blue eyes.
• Family history of acne rosacea.
• Prone (inclined) to acne cysts and/or nodules.
• Women would have a little more possiblity than men to get acne rosacea. Women, however, aren't as likely as men to get severe acne rosacea.

What causes rosacea?

Experts aren't sure what is the exact causes of acne rosacea. The following related factors are said about these:

• Abnormalities in facial blood vessels

Skin specialists recommend that a major factor is perhaps abnormalities within the blood vessels of our face, which cause flushing, redness and visual blood vessels. What causes the inflammation of the blood vessels continues to be a mystery.

• Light colour of the skin

A much higher percentage of individuals with fair skin develop acne rosacea compared to others.

• Demodex folliculorum (microscopic mites)

Mites are lives on human skin and frequently causes no issues. However, patients with acne rosacea have a lot of higher numbers of those mites than others do. Experts don't understand whether the mites cause the acne rosacea, or whether the acne rosacea causes the increase in population of the mites - i.e. Whether the high population of microscopic mites is the cause or the impact of acne rosacea.

• H. Pylori microorganism

H. Pylori, a microorganism found within the gut, which stimulates the production of bradykinin, a protein best-known to cause blood vessels to dilate. Specialists suggest that this bacteria may play a role within the development of acne rosacea.

• Family history (inheritance, genes)

30% to four-hundredth of patients with acne rosacea have a close relative with the condition. Unfortunately, scientists don't yet know how that genes are involved and how they're passed on.