Re: Is cool the answer

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For me, heat alone or cold alone does not trigger my rosacea. (Wind, however, is

another matter. A cold wind is murder on my skin.) What bothers my skin is

going

from heat to cold and particularly from cold to heat. After I come inside from

a

cold day, 15-30 minutes later I can count on a warm feeling spreading from my

neck

up to the top of my head. This isn't such a bad feeling but of course it means

I

am flushing.

Is cool the answer

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>I am not convinced that absolutes of temperature (heat OR cold) are the primary

>trigger for flareups that some contributers assume. I sit here at ten pm in 96

>degree farhenheit heat ( we have not had a day with a top temperature below 102

>for the past week) and my skin is fine, despite daily flushing due to exercise,

>wine and or menopause. Yet when I move between this hot ambient temperature

and

>aggressive air conditioning, I am likely to have a flareup of unrelenting

>redness, and a rash of pustules on the following day

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>Does anyone else share my scepticism about heat being the culprit and cool the

>answer?

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Margie

If spend a few hours in heat of only 30 degrees centigrade my face just

gets redder and redder. My body does not seem able to dissipate the heat

well enough. However, moving from cool outdoor conditions to a warm room

brings on a flush very quickly. How bad and how quickly depends on the

contrast in temperatures. Once again, we are all different.

Terry D