ROSACEA STRESS CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT
In the treatment of rosacea, it's important to treat the symptoms of rosacea in as many ways as possible: by modifying your lifestyles, eating habits and reducing your stress level you can experience a much greater degree of rosacea clearing. While you try to treat the symptoms of rosacea that are most visible and distressing, you should also try to treat the cause! If we find and treat the cause of rosacea, then maybe all the symptoms of rosacea need not occur!
Stress is a major factor in rosacea. Stress is the body's reaction to a perceived threat. Adrenaline and hormones are released, and the nervous system is activated, sharpening our senses, but simultaneously our pulse rises, our muscles tense and our immune system begins to shut down. Those who can not relieve stress as needed may experience fatigue, upset stomach, and frequent headaches. Long term stress can contribute to family breakdown, job fatigue, with resulting long term health problems such as depression, heart disease, high blood pressure, and rosacea.
Can you combat stress? You certainly can by changing your situation, your attitude toward people and things (we can learn to be positive), taking the personal time out to have fun and friendship (a good social network of friends at work, neighbors, and relatives are most important for support), by meditating and praying, staying physically fit, and by seeking outside help if needed.
Avoid multitasking as much as possible by laying down the beeper, remote controls, and your cell phones, pagers, and enjoy your family and friends. Being a perfectionist isn't the answer; it only adds stress. Sleep eight hours or more per night so you can be alert during the day without a stimulant.
When scheduling permits, create a special slow and peaceful day for just you and your entire family.
Eliminate caffeine, colas, and especially diet soft drinks containing aspartame or NutraSweet, chocolates and cocoa which also contain caffeine. Caffeine, being a stimulant, can make you hyper and cause difficulty in sleeping.
Facial flushing is a side effect of stress. Flushing usually occurs when the body becomes fatigued and/or stressed which stimulates the sympathetic nervous system. The key to this is the autonomic nervous system (more specifically, the sympathetic postganglionic efferent nerves). Any activation of these nerves causes vasoconstriction of "body blood vessels" -- except in the "facial blush/flush areas" where it induces potent vasodilatation or flushing with the resulting "rosacea flush".
A typical rosacea sufferer would flush in the fifth grade even if the answer was known when the teacher asked a question, and obviously the flushing would be noticed by the other kids. Again the sympathetic nervous system.
Lack of sleep stimulates the sympathetic nervous system with a minimum of 8 to 9 hours being needed nightly. Lack of sleep contributes to stress.
Anxiety (fight or flight) stimulates the sympathetic nervous system. Increase in internal body temperature stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, whereas obviously a decrease in body temperature decreases the sympathetic system due to the parasympathetic system calming the system.
The sympathetic nervous system is especially important to rosacea patients who tend to have one or more of the following:
Genetically weak blood vessels
Damaged blood vessels from years of sun
Damaged support system for blood vessels (collagen-elastic of skin)
Increased number of blood vessels.
Stress is a major factor in rosacea. Stress is the body's reaction to a perceived threat. Adrenaline and hormones are released, and the nervous system is activated, sharpening our senses, but simultaneously our pulse rises, our muscles tense and our immune system begins to shut down. Those who can not relieve stress as needed may experience fatigue, upset stomach, and frequent headaches. Long term stress can contribute to family breakdown, job fatigue, with resulting long term health problems such as depression, heart disease, high blood pressure, and rosacea.
Can you combat stress? You certainly can by changing your situation, your attitude toward people and things (we can learn to be positive), taking the personal time out to have fun and friendship (a good social network of friends at work, neighbors, and relatives are most important for support), by meditating and praying, staying physically fit, and by seeking outside help if needed.
Avoid multitasking as much as possible by laying down the beeper, remote controls, and your cell phones, pagers, and enjoy your family and friends. Being a perfectionist isn't the answer; it only adds stress. Sleep eight hours or more per night so you can be alert during the day without a stimulant.
When scheduling permits, create a special slow and peaceful day for just you and your entire family.
Eliminate caffeine, colas, and especially diet soft drinks containing aspartame or NutraSweet, chocolates and cocoa which also contain caffeine. Caffeine, being a stimulant, can make you hyper and cause difficulty in sleeping.
Facial flushing is a side effect of stress. Flushing usually occurs when the body becomes fatigued and/or stressed which stimulates the sympathetic nervous system. The key to this is the autonomic nervous system (more specifically, the sympathetic postganglionic efferent nerves). Any activation of these nerves causes vasoconstriction of "body blood vessels" -- except in the "facial blush/flush areas" where it induces potent vasodilatation or flushing with the resulting "rosacea flush".
A typical rosacea sufferer would flush in the fifth grade even if the answer was known when the teacher asked a question, and obviously the flushing would be noticed by the other kids. Again the sympathetic nervous system.
Lack of sleep stimulates the sympathetic nervous system with a minimum of 8 to 9 hours being needed nightly. Lack of sleep contributes to stress.
Anxiety (fight or flight) stimulates the sympathetic nervous system. Increase in internal body temperature stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, whereas obviously a decrease in body temperature decreases the sympathetic system due to the parasympathetic system calming the system.
The sympathetic nervous system is especially important to rosacea patients who tend to have one or more of the following:
Genetically weak blood vessels
Damaged blood vessels from years of sun
Damaged support system for blood vessels (collagen-elastic of skin)
Increased number of blood vessels.
posted by Thomas Domingo | 11:25 AM
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