Rosacea Awareness Month: Redness Relief Tips from James Beckman, MD. In honor of Rosacea Awareness Month, Theraderm Founder James Beckman, MD shares, a few important rosacea management tips:
- Avoid caffeine, alcohol, hot or spicy foods to minimize the outbreaks of red flushing.
- Red coloration is extremely difficult to conceal with makeup of any color. Greens and yellow actually work best as they “cancel out” the red tones.
- The red flushing is due to marked dilation of the tiny capillary blood vessels in the skin itself and not underneath. Theraderm OPC Reparative Serum has a unique ability to reduce the small capillary vessels size/diameter. This minimizes the red “dots per inch” degree of redness. OPC’s key ingredient, Oligomeric Proantho-Cyanidins, significantly decreases skin capillary diameters to minimize any redness in skin in most cases within five days.
- OPC Reparative Serum also minimizes any clear fluid (serum) leakage from the vessels so swelling is also less in rosacea skin. Visualize this as a hose with small pinholes that let water leak out. Smaller holes let less water leak out, so there is less swelling in the skin tissue with Rosacea when OPC is applied topically.
