Wheat intolerance or rosacea?

See a dermatologist to be sure and get the best treatment. I have seborrhic dermatitis. No diet changes helped it. Just use steroid cream and green primer.

If it is itching, get a skin biopsy. It might be Dermatitis Herpetiformis. This is Celiac and treated by avoiding all wheat gluten and wheat products.
https://celiac.org/celiac-disease/understanding-celiac-disease-2/dermatitis-herpetiformis/
https://www.csaceliacs.org/treatment_of_dermatitis_herpetiformis.jsp

It doesn't look like the rosacea I know - flushed skin, red pimples clustered together, dry skin. If it went away with removing certain food-types from your diet, I say keep with the elimination. Do go to the dermatologist just to be sure though.

Looks like perioral dermatitis. I am getting over the same thing;just finishing my oral antibiotics. I was given some topical skin cream as well and it burned for several applications. I also used lotrimin; do not put a steroid on it because it'll make it better for a bit then get much worse. There are certain foods you should avoid according to my research. I recommend you google it to see if this fits what you have.

Dermatologist misdiagnosed me with rosacea (even though I had clear, pale, healthy skin). It was bizarre. But, I didn't know, so I trusted her because she is a doctor. She prescribed a topical vasoconstrictor. But, I actually had a very slight neurological injury. It stopped blood flow to the nerves in my face for 48 hours. I developed a severe rebound pain disorder. I lost my job. Was barely able to eat and sleep. I was completely debilitated for over 6 months. It's been a year. I have recovered a lot, but still dealing with it. I actually had a malabsorption disorder from antibiotics and the skin reactions were from food. I had to stop eating grains. Also starches and fodmaps (should be temporary). That's just my experience. You can get an opinion from a derm. They only look at skin. They don't know anything about the facial nerves or internal health issues. So you might need blood tests and a different doctor. If you do have rosacea you shouldn't use steroids it makes it worse. You can join a rosacea forum like Rosacea Group Forum to read real life experiences with treatment options. Drugs.com has reviews as well, and up to date fda info, doctors use it as their resource on meds as well.

I made an appt with a dermatologist for something else, and she first pointed out that I had a small case of rosecea.
It does not itch or annoy me. I have "rosie" cheeks. People who do not know better, point them out to me like it is a good thing.
For one colleague, I told him to look up rosecea (He is stupid and rude so he deserved it.)
Some folks are just weird and annoying and can't help themselves.

I hope it does clear up for you.

Oh yeah, I use finacea (that's 15% azelaic acid) to prevent blemishes. It's also used to treat rosacea. And I use a serum by Paula's Choice called Resist Ultra-light Super Antioxidant Concentrate Serum (it's for normal to oily skin). It has antioxidants such as niacinamide, resveratrol, quercetin, and hyaluronic acid and glycerin. It's helpful for skin problems like Rosacea or acne and repairs the moisture barrier of the skin.

If you get flushing from histamine in food some natural antihistamines are the antioxidants: Quercetin and Vitamin C.

A lot of people say taking MSM helped them.

For me niacinamide reduced the flushing and nerve pain from the rebound disorder. My neurologist said I might have Neurogenic Rosacea. But, predominantly I have an unknown nerve pain disorder in the trigeminal nerves in my face.

There are actually all different disorders and skin or nerve or blood vessel or food intolerance disorders that get diagnosed as rosacea. There are many different subtypes. With different symptoms and different causes and different triggers and different treatments. Lifestyle treatments are very effective for some people (like the diet changes). There is subtype one that is flushing, redness. Subtype two includes bumps (that aren't acne). There is a subtype that causes growth issues with the nose (this is rare). Ocular rosacea. Neurogenic Rosacea.

Actually, I'd wonder if it's an allergy, honestly. An intolerance doesn't cause a rash, typically. Also, an allergic reaction is treated with steroids, so that improvement on steroids would track. For allergic reactions, IgE reacts to an allergen, then triggers mast cells to release histamine, then the histamine binds with other cells and THOSE cells cause the symptoms. Anti-histamines bind with the last cells in the line and prevent histamine from doing so, and preventing symptoms. But the reaction is actually still going on, with histamine still floating around in the blood. Steroids affect the mast cells and prevent them from releasing histamine in the first place, so they are typically used in conjunction with anti-histamines during an allergic reaction. But they aren't good to take long term, obviously.

Unfortunately, food allergies are also really, really poorly diagnosed by doctors unless you have a more severe reaction that includes hives, asthma, or anaphylaxis. Doctors are taught in medical school that medical problems are 'almost never food involved.' (this from two different doctors I've seen)

So if you have a milder allergic reaction that just causes something like this, doctors - even dermatologists - will often misdiagnose, in my experience.

If it were me, I would honestly make an allergist appointment. I would also take a look at the pizza you ate, drop every ingredient that was in that pizza from your diet, and see if that helps, too. If the allergist can't find anything, but there is still an issue, you could start looking at possible chemical responses (these are not considered true allergies, but the response is the same aside from the fact that chemicals caused it. But because it's not triggered by a protein, allergists don't study chemical reactions, typically).

Because as you don't know what you may be reacting to otherwise, it could be ANYTHING in there.

And I do mean anything, quite literally. could be the more allergenic, well known things like dairy, soy, wheat. Could be the less common allergens like tomatoes or certain herbs. Could be chemicals like nitrates or sulfites (I would guess NOT sulfites, though, as this is so common in the food supply I would imagine that you would react to more foods with it - like, for example, sulfites is used to bleach a lot of white salt.). Or, as allergists have found out recently, some allergies happen only when you get a combination of some foods - so it could be, say, dairy and wheat, or wheat and tomatoes. Seriously, it can be pretty complicated, which is why it is great if you can get tested and doctors are able to help you figure out what might be the problem.

bumpbreakcar wrote: »

OMG I had the same issue! Creams and crap galore didn't help... Eliminated wheat cut back on dairy ... Best skin ever. Stick to that.. Check out the book wheat belly you know the right thing to do all along keep it up, it makes all the difference

Same experience exactly!!