Brimonidine 0.33% gel and oxymetazoline 1% cream typically start working within 30-60 minutes, according to Julie C. Harper.
LAS VEGAS — When patients with rosacea consult Julie C. Harper, MD, about persistent facial erythema, she often recommends brimonidine 0.33% gel or oxymetazoline 1% cream.. In addition, she said, “You’re going to know within 30 minutes or an hour whether it’s going to work or not.”, an alpha-2 adrenergic receptor agonist, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2014 for persistent facial erythema of rosacea. It does not treat telangiectasia and is not approved for flushing .
“What we learned from this study is that maybe patients do better if they use oxymetazoline 1% cream consistently,” Harper said. “Does that mean that everybody I give this to uses it daily? Probably not, but I think we can change the vascular tone by using it consistently every day.”Alpha agonists can also help quell flushing associated with rosacea, Harper continued, but oral beta-blockers may be the better choice.
The Clinician Erythema Assessment 5-point scale before therapy was 3.4 and dropped to 0.4 during therapy, while the patient self-assessment before therapy was 3.8 and dropped to 0.8 during therapy.evaluated the use of propranolol and/or doxycycline in 78 patients with rosacea. The propranolol and combination treatment groups showed more rapid improvement at weeks 4 and 8, but there was no statistically significant difference between them by week 12.
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