Skin concerns
Persistent redness is often mistaken for acne or sensitive skin. These articles help you recognise rosacea, perioral dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis and broken capillaries, understand what sets each one off, and see why acne products can make several of them worse. Most of these conditions need a clinician to diagnose and treat them, and the articles say when it is time to book an appointment.
Moisturisers have the strongest everyday evidence for eczema, prescription creams have the strongest anti-inflammatory evidence, and bath additives, exclusion diets and probiotics have little. Here is the ranking.
Rosacea treatments work on specific features, not on rosacea as a whole. Here is the certainty tier for each option by redness, bumps and flushing.
Flaky patches on the face have three common causes. Where they sit, whether they itch and what the scale looks like tell dryness, eczema and seborrheic dermatitis apart.
Sensitive skin is common and rosacea is not, but flushing, lasting central redness and stinging can be rosacea before any pimples appear. How the criteria tell them apart.
Facial eczema is not always the atopic kind. In patch-test clinics, allergic contact dermatitis was the commonest eyelid diagnosis, and on darker skin the redness can look violet or brown.
Rosacea is diagnosed by looking, not by biopsy. What a dermatologist checks, what the National Rosacea Society says to bring, and what treatments the guidance reports.
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