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More than 16 million Americans suffer from rosacea including award-winning actress Cynthia Nixon. She sits down with Dr. Manny to talk about how sheâ...
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Hello welcome to help dog I'm Dr.
-- more than sixty million Americans suffer from -- Asia.
Big -- a -- winning actress Cynthia Nixon too -- to tell us.
How she's dealt with the condition in front of the camera thank you becoming thank you now Russia Asia is a big ticket -- because as I said millions of people haven't -- what is -- each.
So therefore different kinds of his -- to the kind that I have -- kind of we hear about the most is that kind in the maintenance of the skin.
And also will break out like it looks like actually drink a lot of wind at 7 o'clock in the right you're right worried some spicy -- sometime door.
A quick change in temperature have a hot bath or it's very cold outside -- you walk into -- it's very hot outside you walk in air conditioning.
Now when what you diagnosed with a about four years ago OK and I went to a dermatologist on kind of in a mole that looks suspicious I wasn't thinking about my.
Skin because I thought oh this is just my sable acne that I had when I was dead -- -- even though I'm doing all my acne treatments and nothing is helping but then while it was -- -- she said by the winning any conversation.
And I said -- really well -- knew more about that and she made a list of things that I should be doing an even more -- I shouldn't be doing and I found that I was doing all the things I shouldn't be doing.
So so for you you'd like you know you you thought because a lot of folks when they get -- say share.
And it develops slowly they think will have little -- the -- don't have an inflammation of the scandal whatever the case.
So you didn't think that you faced look kind of funny and you have like Brett certainly -- -- you knows.
Really -- to -- it -- -- assumed it was act because I used to have an and then I was doing things like.
Facial scrubs and -- stringent which I thought I've got to get my face super clean but in fact that was just aggravating things.
Now lucky you've been working with the national rural -- society.
And you've you've been doing this now for awhile bring out awareness to -- why why do you think that's.
Because I'm once I actually went to a dermatologist and got a little medicine -- got a little advice and was set on the right path it.
Cleared up pretty quickly and I had been struggling with it for years.
On since I was in my early thirties so -- if somebody had said to me.
If you have this symptom in -- -- -- -- -- you might have rose shot I -- -- save myself you know it a decade -- of us coming in my face to no avail.
Now you know if -- one of them was beautiful women I've ever seen Michael thank you very under review for a long Long Island am as a dozen New Yorkers should but it.
You know like how do you cope with the enemy -- your profession.
You're the actress we talk about stress stress is one of the what is right he's right and Ryan are you doing plays and you do in movies you do in television so stressed.
Makeup I mean you know you always have to Wear makeup especially when you from the Kenya how do you cope with -- -- of that as an actress.
Well I mean you can't you can't say that -- this.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- And if fight if I do look kind of a gentle.
Sensible.
Predictable routine with my skin care.
And I have been many many fewer flare ups then I I don't get so anxious about nationalism in the makeup and special makeup we'll listen everybody's got.
Video it and it.
What kind of make of do you -- Com I'm sure a lot of different -- make these specific brand more hype when we're getting do you -- when that you and I and -- -- You know I I if you really see is the spill the -- -- I may I add there's not one that I can points you know -- I have a lot of different ones but I will tell you that.
When I had the rose shot I had to Wear a much much thicker foundation.
And now -- -- -- -- much lighter and much less of that which I think.
Makes me look much better and I there's nothing really that ages you faster than -- wearing a lot of pancake and incidentally after our ten starts again you can really tired.
And now you you mentioned before -- when you went to see your dermatologist there.
He or she gave you some treatment yeah what kind of treatment -- we talk about.
Let you know I don't remember the name at least it was -- to balance it was it it was like a topical cream and she said and in my case I only took.
One month's worth because that was -- needed to sort of just come my -- right there.
Mineralization really there's no -- definitive treatment a lot of times you know you does laser treatment for May receive your cases.
Antibiotics and certain -- but you know you really have to kind of be on top of him and deal with the trigger.
Factor and and and see that it doesn't get worse things it gets -- and going your eyes you know things like Tony great great -- all the stuff now working folks can mournful.
So they can get more info at rose -- facts dot com and you can see -- public service announcement you can read about -- you can learn about it.
And there's actually a quiz you can take to find out if it sounds like you have rose -- Based on your answers to the questions then you can type in your zip code and find -- dermatologist near you that the resistance citing recommends I can -- -- -- decision because I loved ones.
He hit fifty parent have rotation than that -- infinitely -- -- and I thank you were coming thank you preliminary information.
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