To find out more about our laser treatments for rosacea, keep reading. We will be discussing our treatment options and how they can benefit those who have this skin condition. 

What are the signs of rosacea? 

The early signs of rosacea include redness across the face, as well as your face feeling hot or painful during these flare ups. Rosacea flare ups can last for a few minutes, as the redness comes and goes. 

A burning sensation may accompany the redness, which can cause discomfort during a flare up.

What triggers rosacea?

Rosacea can have many triggers. Common ones include: spicy food, hot drinks, aerobic exercise, and alcohol. It’s important to recognise your triggers when you have rosacea, to avoid and prevent a flare up. 

How laser treatment works for rosacea 

At our clinic we use Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) treatment to treat patients with rosacea. IPL therapy works by heating up the target area, which results in your body’s healing system breaking down the blood vessels involved. This heat stimulates the production of collagen and elastin, encouraging cell renewal and healing within the skin.

Vascular laser treatments are usually recommended for those with rosacea, but we can use a combination of laser and non-laser treatments too. This depends on your skin type and what’s the most suitable option for you and your skin. 

We Can Help 

Here at The Laser Treatment Clinic, we have a range of professional skin treatments available to help ease your rosacea symptoms. Our team of friendly professionals will come up with a tailored plan for your skin, providing you with the best options available for you. Whether it is vascular skin rejuvenation treatment , IPL treatment, or non-laser treatments, we will do what’s best for you. All of our treatments are safe and highly effective, so you’ll be in great hands. 

Book your free consultation today or contact our team.

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Learn the triggers of your rosacea

For the number of people diagnosed with rosacea every year, each individual will experience a varying degree of symptoms. Rosacea can often flare up for a number of reasons, making your symptoms worse. To understand why a flare-up would occur, it is important to learn what triggers them. Research by various doctors and dermatologists have found several common triggers amongst the majority of rosacea sufferers. However, each individual case will be different. To learn your triggers, we recommend tracking any changes you make to your diet or skincare, noting when you started using a product or ingredient and how this affected your skin.

Some common triggers include:

• alcohol
• spicy foods
• caffeine
• hot drinks
• aerobic exercise

Be gentle with your skin

When caring for skin that rosacea, we recommend a gentle skincare regimen. Use products that contain natural ingredients and do not irritate your skin. For example, the Marine Fluid Shine Free from the Zaheda Skincare range is one product we would recommend to patients with rosacea.

To protect your skin and to reduce the chances of a flare up, SPF is also vital in protecting the skin. Rosacea can make your skin much more sensitive to UV rays and these harmful rays can make your symptoms worse. You should be wearing SPF every day, despite what the weather is like.

Seek professional advice

When treating any new skin condition, it is vital you speak with a professional who can provide you with the best advice. You may have received your diagnosis from your GP but would like more information. For further advice speaking with a professional within dermatology and skincare would be useful.

Consider a rosacea skincare treatment

At our Harley Street Clinic, our team can offer you a skin consultation to discuss our rosacea treatment. Using Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) treatment, we can begin the rejuvenation process for your skin. The treatment is used to target the affected blood vessels below the skin’s surface. Targeting these blood vessels with our laser treatment will stimulate the body’s natural healing process. This will help to reduce the facial redness caused by your rosacea. Rosacea can appear across the face in a number of areas. Therefore, this treatment has been designed to work on various areas of the face. Including the cheeks, nose, and chin.

The team at The Laser Treatment Clinic have over 25 years of experience in treating a variety of skin conditions. If you would like more information from our team in regard to our rosacea treatments please do not hesitate to get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Thankfully, The Laser Treatment Clinic staff have the tools and expert knowledge needed to treat rosacea, drastically improving the look of red areas. While our skin experts create tailor-made plans for every patient, to ensure they get the best results, here is an overview of what you can expect from the rosacea treatment at our Harley Street clinic.

IPL Treatment for Rosacea

The preferred method of treatment for rosacea is the use of Intense Pulsed Light (IPL). This procedure works by aiming an intense beam of light at the affected blood vessels. This causes them to coagulate, eventually collapsing and breaking away, to then be cleared away naturally by the body. After several treatments, the redness associated with rosacea will fade to reveal a much more even skin tone.  The treatment itself involves a procedure that fires beams of light aimed at blood vessels in the skin to shrink them and make them less visible. Therefore making your skin look more healthy and natural in a fast and non-invasive fashion.

The number of sessions you will need to see the best results will depend on the severity of your rosacea. When you book a consultation with our skin experts, they will be able to advise you on this as they will create a tailor-made treatment plan for you.

The Benefits of Treating Rosacea

The IPL treatment itself comes with numerous benefits as it can greatly improve the look of your rosacea. With the improvement in skin tone and colour, most patients also feel their self-esteem and confidence returning as they no longer feel like they have to cover up their face to mask their skin condition. And, unlike other treatments or products, IPL offers a permanent solution to dealing with rosacea, making its appearance far more manageable in the long term.

If you’re suffering from rosacea and are ready to take the next step to deal with it permanently, then get in touch with our friendly team and book a free consultation!

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In today’s blog, The Laser Treatment Clinic look at what you need to know about the Rosacea treatment and how it can help sufferers.

The Treatment

The treatment itself involves a procedure that fires beams of light aimed at blood vessels in the skin to shrink them and make them less visible. Therefore making your skin look more healthy and natural in a fast and non-invasive fashion.

Depending on the severity of the skin condition then it may take at least three treatments for it to visibly start to reduce in redness. It’s best to ask your physician when you’re at the clinic for Rosacea treatment about how many treatments you’ll need in relation to your specific needs.

The treatment itself only takes on average around 10 to 20 minutes and you’ll be in an out in no time!

Benefits

The treatment itself can provide a multitude of benefits to the sufferer and vastly change their lifestyle, one of which would be self-confidence. People who suffer from Rosacea often experience self-esteem and confidence issues due to the redness and soreness of the skin, particularly around the face. Depending on the severity of the condition it can completely change a person’s life and in some cases, people avoid going out completely.

This effective treatment can help massively in boosting confidence and self-esteem as the results can often completely remove the redness and sore feeling. Allowing previous sufferers the freedom to do whatever they’d like without fear of feeling like they’re being looked at.

A huge benefit would be how fast it takes for the results to show, with some customers reporting instant reduction to the redness of their skin to a few hours after. Knowing that it’s that simple only helps with confidence, with the knowledge that if the condition ever returns all it takes is a simple procedure to get clear and healthy skin.

If you’re suffering from Rosacea and would like to know more about laser treatment then get in touch with us today by booking a free consultation!

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Rosacea triggers

Medical professionals believe that there are certain triggers which can set off rosacea and make it flare up worse than usual in sufferers. Common triggers of rosacea These include:

• Emotional stress
• Exposure to the sun
• Hot weather and humidity
• Spicy food
• Consumption of alcohol
• Heavy exercise
• Hot baths and showers
• Wind and cold weather
• Some skincare products and cosmetics
• Hot drinks
• Certain medications and medical conditions

Are you tired of living with rosacea?

Rosacea is generally believed to be completely harmless unless it starts to affect the eyes. However, for people who have it, rosacea can be very difficult to live with.

There is now a treatment available that can clear up rosacea, giving sufferers long term relief from the occasionally embarrassing and confidence-sapping symptoms of rosacea. The method to try is laser treatment, which is used to heat up and break down the blood vessels which cause the redness and flushing that is typical of the condition.

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What are broken blood vessels?

Broken blood vessels (also known as telangiectasia) are tiny capillaries that have become dilated, twisted or broken. You can spot broken blood vessels by looking for red, bruise-like spots that don’t disappear easily, if at all.

What causes them?

There are a few possible causes of broken blood vessels and capillaries, such as:

• Sun exposure – excessive exposure to the harmful UV rays of the sun can cause broken blood vessels in the face, as well as spider veins and broken capillaries.
• Rosacea – a disorder of the skin that can cause telangiectasia, as well as a general redness and flushing of the face.
• Age
• Hormonal changes
• Genetics

Treatments for broken blood vessels

If you have broken blood vessels in the skin of your face, you don’t have to just put up with the problem. There is now a treatment available which makes use of lasers to heat up the damaged blood vessels and collapse them, without damaging the surrounding skin. Laser treatment can also effectively treat rosacea.

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You should know that you are not alone with this condition. In fact, many celebrity figures have rosacea. Not only have they all gone to be hugely successful in their respective fields, but many are known for their appearance and in some cases, their beauty.

Take a look at the list of celebrities known to have rosacea:

• Bill Clinton – former U.S. President
• Alex Ferguson – football manager
• Mariah Carey – singer
• Dita Von Teese – model, burlesque star and actress
• Cynthia Nixon – Sex and the City actress
• Cameron Diaz – Hollywood actress
• Diane Kruger – Hollywood actress

There is a treatment for rosacea, which involves using a special type of laser device to denature the inner cells of the affected blood vessels. If you want to know more, speak to a laser treatment specialist.

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We should all be wearing a daily sunblock on exposed areas of skin, but for those who are more likely to suffer a flare-up of redness, thread veins and spots, it is absolutely essential. There has been some discussion about how wearing sunblock can inhibit Vitamin D production resulting in a deficiency, but ten minutes in the sun without sunblock should be enough. You certainly don’t need to leave your skin unprotected all day!

Make sure, too, that you get into the habit of wearing a sun hat when the sun is at its brightest and most intense. This can help keep the rays off your face and keep the skin cool, which should reduce the risk of rosacea symptoms.

If, however, despite your best efforts your face is left flushed and marked by thread veins, make sure you seek I.P.L. treatment, which can very effective at helping you to manage these symptoms.

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If you know that you are prone to rosacea during the summer months, then make sure you do everything you can to keep it under control and protect your complexion. This means keeping your face out of the sun; as a rosacea sufferer, you should be wearing a sunblock every single day. Make sure you look for one that doesn’t leave a greasy residue or block pores as this could worsen any spotty breakouts.

It is also a good idea to wear a hat when the sun is shining and to choose one that casts a substantial shadow over your face. This may seem like a pain, but your complexion will reward you with a brighter, less sensitised appearance. Failing that, if you already show the signs of rosacea (thread veins and redness) then give laser rosacea treatment could provide you with valuable relief.

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Rosacea is usually triggered by environmental factors like strong sunlight, heat, cold and pollution. It can also worsen if alcohol or spicy foods are consumed. Each person is individual and their skin reacts in different ways.
It is for this reason that keeping a diary can be such a valuable experience for someone suffering from rosacea.

Keeping a diary enables the person to analyse the circumstances that are followed by a rosacea flare-up.
Once the links have been made, then the triggers can be avoided and the condition can be managed more effectively. As a general rule, anyone with rosacea should avoid exposing their skin to strong sunlight and should systematically wear sunblock to prevent redness and irritation.

If the complexion is already reddened and thread veins are visible through the surface of the skin, rosacea treatment using IPL can be very helpful. The intense light removes thread veins and decreases redness.

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