What causes rosacea?

Believe it or not but this skin condition that affects millions of people (most of them women) is still untreatable. When skin doctors (dermatologists) treat you for rosacea with light therapy to decrease redness, or ask you to make dietary changes like eating less spicy foods, or prescribe antibiotics, they are using a hit-and-trial methodology.

An exciting news that came out recently is that scientists have finally figured out that people with rosacea have too much of an incorrectly processed protein called cathelicidin. While it does not mean that we now exactly how to treat rosacea but now that we know the culprit we can find a cure soon.