How do you get rid of papulopustular rosacea?
What is rosacea?
Rosacea is a chronic red skin condition due to enlarged blood vessels. It gets worse over time from flushing. The condition can be more complicated when you have small pustules filled with bacteria in the area of the enlarged blood vessels—usually over the cheeks on the face. It can be caused by stress, high blood pressure, chronic flushing, anxiety, heat, food allergies, spicy foods and alcoholism. There are different kinds of the condition, one of which is called papulopstular rosacea.
What is papulopstular rosacea?
Papulopustular rosacea is when you have pustules causes by tiny whitehead areas over red cheeks. The redness is from constantly flushing. Your skin can be painful and swollen. The areas can be on cheeks and other areas such as your chin, forehead and sometimes might appear like you have acne—but it’s not acne. This kind of rosacea is a highly inflammatory rosacea and is usually more painful than other kinds as this isn’t stage one of having rosacea.
Depending on your skin tone and what type of skin you have (dry, in-between, oily) it can be worse. You might have other issues with rosacea that affect the skin feel and appearance. This condition is hard to completely understand. Studies have found that certain genetics could be a factor in developing the condition. Sometimes there can be environmental factors that contribute to the condition as well as anxiety, alcoholism and food related issues—these aren’t the triggers that affect everyone and cause it to start with.
Symptoms and appearance of papulopustular rosacea
This kind of rosacea usually has bumps that have pus in them. The skin is hot to the touch usually. The condition causes blood vessels to be enlarged on the face and your skin will be inflamed. Everyone has different severities of rosacea but this version is one of the worse because of the bumps. Beginning stages of rosacea might not have bumps because only redness appears sometimes.
There is no cure for the condition, so symptom treatment is essential to help improve skin health and make you feel more at ease about this embarrassing condition. Many times skin health has to do with the gut health but sometimes is lessened by avoiding certain foods, reducing anxiety levels, and understanding other triggers that can make the condition worse over time.
Know the triggers for rosacea symptoms to start
There are many issues that can cause a trigger for your papulopustular rosacea which can cause a flare of the skin condition. Knowing these, you’ll be able to avoid a flare or at least mitigate it to a degree.
- Sun overload; hot temperatures instead and outside
- Over exercising (can cause too much flushing and facial redness)
- Too much wind in your face
- Certain medications and supplements
- Spicy foods
- Foods containing Cinnamaldehyde compound
- Hot drinks
- Drinking alcohol too frequently
- Having gut infections
- Having demodex (a kind of skin mite)
- Facial products for exfoliation
- Acidic skin care products
- Some essential oils, fragrant sprays for neck and face
- Menthol and witch hazel products
Improving and sticking to a healthier diet can benefit rosacea
If you have a diet filled with too much sugar, unhealthy fats and too many carbohydrates—you need to figure out a plan to improve your diet. These things could be causing your rosacea. You also want to scale back on alcohol consumption and spicy foods as these can cause rosacea to start. Overheating can make your face red and cause enlarged blood vessels making rosacea worse over time.
To help improve your health all-around and help improve papulopstular rosacea y9ull want to start consuming foods like the following:
- Fish (Salmon)
- Seeds and nuts (Sunflower seeds, almonds)
- Eggs
- Foods high in (Iron, vitamin C, zinc, B vitamins, quercetin)
- High fiber foods (Apples, Oatmeal, etc.)
- Fermented foods; these help balance gut microbiome (Kimchee, pickles, sauerkraut)
Natural ways to treat papulopstular rosacea
Foods are important for us to get vitamins, minerals, amino acids and so on. We need nutrition otherwise our organs shut down—and our skin needs all of these nutrients as well. After all, it is the largest organ on our bodies.
Consuming healthy, organic fruits and vegetables provide is with anti-inflammatories like quercetin. Many of them are loaded with antioxidants and they are essential for fighting infections, lowering inflammation in the body and are great for much more than our skin health as well.
Foods that are super-nutrient and helpful for papulopustular rosacea:
- Spinach
- Kale
- Collard greens
- Broccoli
- Brussels sprouts or other cabbages
- Carrots
- Tomatoes
- Onions
- Blueberries
- Oranges
- Grapefruits
- Mangos
- Kiwis
Healthy fat consumption is imperative to help rosacea:
- Olive oil
- Coconut oil
- Flax seeds
- Chia seeds
- Fish oil
Western Medicine ways to treat papulopstular rosacea
Prescription medications could also be a treatment for someone who suffers from severe forms of rosacea. These are all to be used with extra caution as they have more side effects than many natural health ways of improving gut health and immune function and your skin.
- Azelaic acid (topical only)
- Metronidazole
- Minocycline
- Doxycycline
Other treatment options that have some researching backing include:
- Light or laser therapy
Instead of using pharmaceuticals you should want to first attempt to use vitamins and minerals and through food. But, it is a great idea to have safe and effective ways of prevention at home.
Hypochlorous (HOCl) PurClarity Revitalizing Mist can improve papulopustular rosacea
When your face is riddled with whitehead areas that have redness due to chronic flushing, you need something major that won’t cause any more damage to your skin. This kind of rosacea is problematic because it doesn’t matter how much cover-up you put on your face it doesn’t go away and make-up will make the condition worse.
You need our HOCl PurClarity Revitalizing Mist to help hydrate, clean the skin and help prevent or improve your skin conditions—no matter what you have. Your cheeks will thank you. You can use our product wherever—on your face and body. It is extremely safe, effective and you will use this for your entire life!
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Our Hypochlorous PurClarity Revitalizing Mist can help address skin infections, inflammation and can be used during the day without causing greasy areas or build-up—it is a light mist that works well with light make-up. You can use it any time of day. It is easy to use it on the go to—no need for a mirror to spray it. Spray the mist anywhere you are having skin irritations and when you suffer from rosacea.
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- Rosacea
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