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Hello, I’m Dr. Neal Schultz
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and welcome to DermTV.
People with red blotches or broken blood vessels
on their face are
frustrated by their inability to find effective
skin care products to help
them with their problem. Here are the treatment
choices:
First and easiest is make-up. Green tinted
foundation most effectively
helps hide the red because green is opposite
red in the color wheel (i.e.,
they neutralize each other).
Second are caffeine-containing products that
are advertised to help reduce
the size of blood vessels. If you constrict
the blood vessels you will
squeeze some blood out and there will be less
red in the skin. The reality,
though, is caffeine containing products usually
work better to relieve the
signs of Rosacea because of their anti-inflammatory
powers than they do to
really get the red out of your skin.
Next are topical cortisone products which
constrict the blood vessels very
well and get the red out very effectively.
However, the problem is you can
not use them on an on-going basis. If you
use them for too long after they
have temporarily helped the redness, they
will actually break the
capillaries, cause more redness and thin the
skin. So this isn't an option.
Lastly and the only thing that really works
is laser treatments. Laser
treatments by your dermatologist will permanently,
easily, and without pain
get rid of the red whether it's blotches or
broken blood vessels.
Hopefully in the near future an effective
skin care product will be
developed to reduce the red in your skin but
until then you are either
going to use make-up to cover it or have laser
treatments to remove it
permanently.