Wheat intolerance or rosacea?

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!!

Foods trigger my rosacea badly, and tomato sauce/juice is one of my biggest problems. (Alcohol too--if I have a Bloody Mary, I'll look like a traffic light for a week.) Nightshades could be a problem for you, or it could be something else entirely. Google rosacea food triggers, then compare that list with your food diary. Good luck--this can be an arduous process.