What's Causing Your Red Face?
Could It Be Rosacea?
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Identifying Your Rosacea Triggers
If you have rosacea, effective treatment can depend on knowing your own personal triggers. Use this diary each day to keep track of your symptoms. After a week or so, see if you find a pattern to your flare-ups. Then bring your diary to your next doctor's appointment.
Date: __________
How were your symptoms today?
| No flare-up | Mild flare-up | Severe flare-up |
Did you follow your doctor's treatment plan today?
| Yes | No |
What weather were you exposed to? | What did you eat? | What did you do? How did you feel? |
What drugs or products did you use? | ||||
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| Sunlight For how long?
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Spicy foods What and how much?
| Took a hot bath or sauna | Medication What and how much?
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| Heat For how long?
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Hot drinks What and how much?
| Exercised How and how long?
| Skin care products or soap What did you use?
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| Cold For how long?
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Hot foods What and how much?
| Felt sick or had other symptoms Explain.
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Cosmetics What did you use?
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| Wind For how long?
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Alcohol What and how much?
| Felt anxious or stressed Explain.
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Perfume or aftershave What did you use?
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| Humidity For how long?
| Other possible trigger foods What and how much?
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Other Explain.
| Other products What did you use?
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Medically updated by Brunilda Nazario, MD, May 2008.
SOURCE: Adapted from the National Rosacea Society's "Rosacea Diary Booklet."
