- Rosacea usually causes a persistent redness in the central part of your face. Small blood vessels on your nose and cheeks often swell and become visible. People having Rosacea suffers from swollen red bumps and also develop pimples on their face that resemble acne. Rosacea’s trademark symptom is small, red, pus-filled bumps on the skin that are present during flare-ups. Typically, rosacea affects only skin on your nose, cheeks, and forehead. Flare-ups often occur in cycles. This means that you will experience symptoms for weeks or months at a time, the symptoms will go away, and then return.
- Types of rosacea:
The four types of rosacea are:
Sub type one, known as erythematotelangiectatic rosacea (ETR), is associated with facial redness, flushing, and visible blood vessels.
Subtype two, papulopustular (or acne) rosacea, is associated with acne-like breakouts, and often affects middle-aged women.
Subtype three, known as rhinophyma, is a rare form associated with thickening of the skin on your nose. It usually affects men and is often accompanied by another subtype of rosacea.
Subtype four is known as ocular rosacea, and its symptoms are centered on the eye area.
- Causes of Rosacea: The cause of rosacea is unknown, but it could be due to a combination of hereditary and environmental factors. Rosacea is not caused by poor hygiene.A number of factors can trigger or aggravate rosacea by increasing blood flow to the surface of your skin.
- Some of these factors include:
Hot drinks and spicy foods
Alcohol
Temperature extremes
Sunlight or wind
Emotions
Exercise
Cosmetics
Drugs that dilate blood vessels, including some blood pressure medications
Rosacea symptoms are different between each subtype.
- Signs of rosacea ETR: flushing and redness in the center of your face visible broken blood vessels swollen skin sensitive skin stinging and burning skin dry, rough, and scaly skin
- Signs of acne rosacea: acne-like breakouts and very red skin oily skin sensitive skin broken blood vessels that are visible raised patches of skin
- Signs of thickening skin: bumpy skin texture thick skin on nose thick skin on chin, forehead, cheeks, and ears large pores visible broken blood vessels
- Signs of ocular rosacea: bloodshot and watery eyes eyes that feel gritty burning or stinging sensation in the eyes dry, itchy eyes eyes that are sensitive to light cysts on eyes diminished vision broken blood vessels on eyelids. Rosacea in Ayurvedic View
- Rosacea is believed to emanate from a pitta imbalance, so Ayurvedic solutions focus on bringing that dosha into balance. Since Western medicine has no topical "cure" for rosacea, paying attention to the internal factors that cause the condition are crucial.According to Ayurvedic tradition, someone with a pitta imbalance is considered to have a hot body and internal temperature, so a diet of cool,sweet, stabilizing foods should replace those that are salty, sour, spicy, or pungent. In terms of skin care, skip your skin-aggravating morning face wash for honey.Apply a layer of honey to the face before jumping in the shower, and then remove it with a warm washcloth. A chamomile compress can also be very helpful when experiencing a flare-up, as chamomile is an excellent natural treatment for redness. Cold cucumbers applied to the skin can also provide rapid relief. Pitta-balancing yoga poses like boat, bridge, and chair will also help.
- Ayurvedic Treatment for Rosacea: Treatment for rosacea in Ayurveda consists of processes that remove the cause of the disorder. Excess heat and toxin build up in the body have been identified as the two causes of rosacea in Ayurveda. When these increase beyond the normal level, the skin is affected as it is one of the waste removal organs of the body.Negative emotions, stress and unhealthy eating result in more than normal buildup of heat and toxins in the body. The liver and gall bladder are not able to clean the blood properly as their function is disrupted, because of which excess of heat is generated in the small intestine. It is this blood, laden with toxins and carrying more heat, that causes eruptions in your face called rosacea. The Ayurvedic treatment is focused at removing the cause of rosocea and not suppressing the symptom of eruptions.
There are solutions to treat Rosecea by ayurvedic ways:
- Cleansing and purging – The Panchkarma treatment in Ayurveda involves five types of cleansing processes. You need to consult an Ayurvedic practitioner who is adept in performing these procedures. There are a lot more health benefits of Panchkarma than just treating rosacea and everyone must get it done once every few years. Special massages are performed to purge the body from its more than normal heat. The purgative herbs used in the massage are castor oil, burdock and dandelion roots.
- Proper diet for rosacea treatment and prevention – You need to avoid foods that cause excess of heat and toxins in your body. These include meat, alcohol, spicy foods, oily foods, vinegar, chocolate, coffee or any foodstuff that has the property of increasing the heat of your body. Ayurvedic diet prescribed for rosacea treatment includes the injunctions on taking these foods. It is also advised that you take such food in moderation after getting rid of rosacea so as to prevent its recurrence.
- Green tea cream – Symptoms of rosacea can be naturally treated with green tea cream. The cream made from extracts of green tea is very useful in making the eruptions of rosacea subside. Anti-aging properties have also been found in this cream and you can also use them for treatment of acne. You need to apply the cream twice daily and the result start to show in 2 to 4 weeks. If you have any doubts about the Ayurvedic treatment of rosacea, visit a certified Panchkarma therapist today. He will be able to explain the procedures well enough to lay your doubts to rest.
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