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Repost clearly intended for group. I distinguish between marketing

claims, which come from a company -- including studies conducted by a

company -- and independently conducted and funded studies, which do

not make claims, but report findings.

Marjorie

Marjorie Lazoff, MD

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Hi Marjorie,

While I agree with you that we need to be skeptical. We have

all been dissapointed many times. My dissapointment started when I

was first diagnosed, given metro-gel and told that it would take care

of the rosacea...(that was a joke) Many products (OTC and

prescription) later I am very aware that all the products specially

metro-gel..make claims that are untrue. Have you seen their TV

commercials with an 800 number that promises to take care of the

embarrasing redness?? Oh Please.... They show the redfaced P & P full

faces of people prior to metro-gel and then the happy, smiling clear

faces after metro-gel use.... ly, I see little difference

between their hyped up claims (even if they did supposedly un-biased

studies) and those claims made by all the other companies, rosacare,

purple emu, cutinex, etc. Certainly metrogel, noritate and all the

others haven't lived up to their claims for most of us. In fact

for some in the group gold bond, herbacort, florasone, purple emu and

other strange ointments, pills and diet have done a lot more for them

than the FDA approved medications for this condition. My skin has

been doing pretty good in the last few months and that happened

through experimentation and changes in diet, etc. All because of

suggestions I have received through this great group and the rosacea-

diet group

Thanks to all !

Best regards,

Elena