KeratoScoop (Rebecca's blog)

Pediatric ocular rosacea: 2 cases.

Purpose.
To report the clinical course of 2 pediatric ocular rosacea cases with a significant delay until diagnosis.

Methods.
We report 2 interventional case reports. Case 1 is a 10-year-old boy with 2 years of recurrent bilateral blepharitis, repetition chalazion, conjunctival hyperemia, and corneal ulcers, without response to topical antibiotics or topical and systemic steroids. Case 2 is a 9-year-old girl with keratoconjunctivitis

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Nice results reported with doxycycline use in this study.

Treatment of ocular rosacea with 40 mg doxycycline in a slow release form.

Background:
About 30-50 % of rosacea patients have ocular involvement. The symptoms range from a foreign-body sensation to conjunctivitis or blepharitis and may even include severe corneal ulcerations. Systemic treatment is generally with tetracycline. Side effects can occur with the usual antimicrobial dose.

Patients and

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Interesting.

Some of you without facial rosacea who have been diagnosed with ocular rosacea might want to discuss this "rosacea-like demodicidosis" concept with your doctor.

It's always heartening to see a study (even just a case study) saying things like "complete remission without recurrence".

Rosacea-like demodicidosis and chronic blepharitis.

Demodicidosis is a parasitic skin disease caused by the follicle mites

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