Rosacea : Your Self-Help Guide

This self-care guide helps the over 13 million rosacea sufferers in the U.S. achieve control over their disorder through lifestyle modifications and medical treatment.

Acknowledgments

vii

Foreword

ix

Introduction

1

(6)

What Is Rosacea?

7

(8)

What Does Rosacea Look Like?

What Does Rosacea Feel Like?

Ocular Rosacea

Individual Symptoms

You Can't Pass It On (Except Hereditarily)

Rosacea Basics

15

(6)

What Causes Rosacea?

Is It Really Rosacea?

Who Is Most at Risk?

Treatment Options for Rosacea

21

(14)

How It Begins

Check Out Your Options

Your Own Experimentation: Self-Help Solutions

An Abundance of Choices

Discover Your Triggers---and Learn to Work Around Them

35

(16)

Food and Drink

Stress

Weather

Skin-Care Products

Cleaning Your Face

Shaving

Bathing

Sex

Drug-Induced Flare-ups

Triggers That May Surprise You

Stress Management

51

(12)

How Do I Know If I'm Stressed?

Who Do You Think You Are?

Meditation

Visualization

Quality Worry-Time

Get a Hobby

Gimme That Ol' Time Religion

Quality Time Off

Get a Companion Animal

The Here and Now

The Coverup---from Makeup to Laser

63

(10)

Disguising Rosacea

Facials

Products to Improve the Texture of Your Skin

Micodermabrasion

Treating Telangiectasias

Nutrition for Your Skin

73

(42)

So Many Kinds of Dietary Theories

Foods, Herbs, and Nutrients Your Skin Will Like

Foods and Drinks Your Skin Doesn't Like

What You Eat

What Do We Mean by ``Good Nutrition''?

Saving Your Face: What You Eat and Drink

The Standard Choice: The Food Pyramid

Our Recommendation: The Food Wheel

89

(26)

How You Eat

115

(14)

Saving Your Face ... How You Eat and Drink

Suggestions for Eating in Restaurants

Protectors and Enemies in Your Gut

Intestinal Permeability, a.k.a. Leaky Gut

The Psychology of Face

129

(6)

Identity

Character

Perception

Reframing

Everything You Can Have

135

(16)

Changing Your Perspective

With Change Comes Growth

Education

Face It, You're Not Your Face

Taking Back Your Life

Therapy

The Choice Is Yours

143

(6)

Appendix

Insurance Coverage for Rosacea Treatments

149

(2)

References

151

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