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Everything we've written about rosacea
Organized by what you're trying to do: find your own triggers, walk into your dermatologist's office prepared, understand what the research actually says, or choose how to track. Every piece is sourced where it matters, and none of it is medical advice. Rosacea is a medical condition; use this to inform a conversation with your dermatologist.
Find your triggers
The core job: your triggers are individual, and the only study that finds them is the one you run on yourself.
How to find your own rosacea triggers The n=1 method: track, photograph, change one variable at a time.
What actually triggers rosacea The full ranked list from 1,066 patients, and why heat beats diet.
It's the temperature, not the caffeine Why your hot coffee may be the trigger, not the coffee.
Red wine vs white wine What the evidence says about the classic rosacea trigger.
Prepare for your dermatologist
How to document rosacea for your dermatologist What to bring so a 15-minute visit is worth more.
The appointment documentation gap Why what you remember and what your skin did rarely match.
What dermatologists actually want to see The record that helps, versus the one that wastes the visit.
Why every derm app fails at clinical photography Consistent lighting, angle, and distance, and why they matter.
Your rosacea app should track your eyes Ocular rosacea is easy to miss and worth logging.
Understand the condition
The phenotype model, not subtypes How dermatology reclassified rosacea, and why it changes how you track.
Rosacea on every skin tone Why it's under-diagnosed on darker skin, and what that means for tracking.
Demodex, the rosacea factor What the research says about the mite link.
Neurogenic rosacea and the CGRP pathway The nerve-and-vessel mechanism behind heat and stress triggers.
The estrogen-protective hypothesis What the evidence suggests about hormones and rosacea.
Rosacea and the gut microbiome Where the evidence is real and where it's overstated.
The post-COVID rosacea wave What changed, and what the data shows.
Measuring rosacea
Why every rosacea severity score feels broken The trouble with composite scores, and what to track instead.
Choose how to track
The best rosacea tracker apps (2026) Six apps scored for finding your triggers, honest about who each is for.
All comparisons Skinframe vs Rosacea Diary, vs Bearable, and vs a spreadsheet.
Reference
The rosacea glossary Phenotype, erythema, telangiectasia, flushing, Demodex, and more, in plain terms.
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