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Article: Treatment pales rosacea's red face. (skin disorder)
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- April 1, 1994
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When she was a teenager and her friends were bemoaning the whiteheads and blackheads erupting on their faces, Marcia Meyer of Kensington, Md., had a clear, ruddy complexion. She was surprised, then, when her face broke out in pimples for the first time when she was in her 20s. Feeling she was "too old for this," Meyer says, and upset over her appearance, she went to see her dermatologist, who told her she had a skin disorder known as rosacea.
Although few people are familiar with the disease, rosacea is a common skin disorder that afflicts about 1 in 20 people in this country, estimates dermatologist and rosacea expert Jonathan Wilkin, M.D., of Ohio State ...