Study Explores Contact Allergy in Rosacea Patients
People with rosacea must be careful with their choices of skin-care products, as some can contain ingredients that may trigger a skin reaction and a worsening of their symptoms. Yet there is little data on contact allergy in rosacea patients. “This is astonishing,” note the authors of a recent study on the topic in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology, “as sensitive and inflamed skin may be more prone to contact sensitization, and coexistence of both phenomena in rosacea patients is probably not uncommon.” To help supply some data, the authors designed what is perhaps the first prospective study on contact sensitization in rosacea patients.
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Study Explores Contact Allergy in Rosacea Patients