Tamara Thomas

Urban Health Today

The impact of rosacea during pregnancy remains unpredictable, as highlighted in a recent research letter published in the International Journal of Women&#8217;s Dermatology.
Previous studies have found that rosacea commonly affects women in their childbearing years. However, the impact of physiologic changes in pregnancy on rosacea severity is unclear.
Dr. Genevieve Benedetti and colleagues conducted a telephone survey of 39 women diagnosed with rosacea before their pregnancies who were admitted to Oregon Health &amp; Science University for labor and delivery between June 27, 2015, and June 27, 2020.
The women in the study were around 35.5 years old on average when they gave birth, with some being younger or older by about 4 years. Most of the babies were born full-term, around 39.4 weeks pregnant. About 97% of the pregnancies were singleton pregnancies, and 18% had undergone fertility treatments to achieve pregnancy.
About 97% of the women reported experiencing erythematotelangiectatic rosacea (ERT), characterized by persistent redness on the face, and 67% reported papulopustular rosacea (inflammatory rosacea) symptoms. Most participants (83.3%) did not use prescription rosacea treatments before or during pregnancy (89.6%). 
Nearly half (48.7%) of the participants reported experiencing worsening rosacea symptoms during pregnancy; 33.3% reported no change in rosacea severity during pregnancy; and 17.9% reported their rosacea improved during pregnancy.  
The researchers also found that, on average, the women in the study had mild rosacea before pregnancy. They scored an average of 1.10 on a scale where higher scores indicate more severe rosacea. Interestingly, this average score didn&#8217;t change significantly throughout the pregnancies, even though individual women&#8217;s experiences varied.
&#8220;Rosacea, like acne, lacks a predictable group effect, and instead, each individual may have a different response to the physiologic changes of pregnancy,&#8221; the authors concluded.
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Source: <a href="https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/impact-pregnancy-rosacea-unpredictable-study-suggested-2024a10000c6">Medscape</a>
Journal source:  <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10617829/">International Journal of Women&#8217;s Dermatology</a>

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