Hi. I have the following problem: in the past two months I get a red rush on my face on a rather regular basis. It looks as if my face was nettle irritated-thousands of tiny little red things covering my cheeks and chin . It is itching, sore, hot, feels inflamed, very tens and is very dry. Sometimes I feel sore when I get it, it fells as if my face was burning. I sometimes feel very weak, as if I had a light fever.
Only the rush is red, the areas of my face not affected by this rush are just fine.
I usually get a couple of pimples (by they do not really bother me) and a couple of things that look like small mosquito bites on my cheeks or on the areas of my face close to ears and hair, a couple of days before the rush occurs. These „mosquito like bites“ itch like hell, followed by the rush ca. 2 days later. This happens each 7-10 days. Sometimes it goes away in a couple of days, and sometimes it just gets a little better, but it seldom goes away fully. You can imagine that I therefore have had rush most of the time in the last couple of months. Even when this inflammatory rush goes away there are usually reddish spots that remain on my face, they look like little reddish pimple discolorations, they are not and never were pimples, just little reddish spots. When I get this rush, mz face is kind of itchy all over, but mostly in the evening, early mornings and in the frame areas of my cheeks and chin. My face even looks a little bit swollen I believe.
My diet is very healthy. I am a vegetarian (I do not eat red, white meat nor fish) I take a lot of raw vegetables and fruits (ca. 2 plates each day) minimal bread, minimal milk products. I used to take lots of sweets, but I stopped close to a month ago. I also stopped using my make-up a month ago because I found that a couple of days after applying foundation, my face brakes out in a rush.
I am allergic to mites, house dust and pollen and my Demodex microscope test was positive. I was prescribed an alcohol lotion followed by Rosamed 1% in the evenings and a neutral day cream in the mornings. I was better for about 3 days before a nettle-like Rush appeared again inflaming my face completely. I even started getting small pimples on my usually completely clear forehead. I started using Tea Tree Oil too but nothing happens...
I used a cortico-cream during a breakout before and my rush would always goe away in a single day, but I noticed that I tend to flush horrible during that kind of „healing process“ so I stopped it.
I also noticed that I flush every time I eat carrot and that I breakout when I smoke. I stopped smoking a year ago but I sometimes take a cigarete or two in a month. I made food allergy tests (we have very food allergy tests here in Bosnia & Herzegovina) but they revealed nothing.
Please help, I can not take it any longer. Can you advice something else to use, I will try anything...
Thank you. Vildana