Because of situations like yours, I feel it is important for patients to really educate themselves on how various cosmetic skin procedures work to give results. With this knowledge, it becomes easier to make informed decisions and discern what is legitimate and what is not.
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Sulfur based washes can be very helpful in improving sensitive, rosacea-prone skin. It helps to reduce both the inflammatory acneiform lesions of rosacea (pimples) as well as the erythema (redness). I have many patients with sensitive skin using sulfur based washes or lotions without...
If it's the regular type of steroid rosacea, then it usually goes away within months of discontinuing the topical agents...but sometime it seems to trigger a condition known as perioral dermatitis and once it flares it tends to run a recurrent but intermittent course...and may need periodic...