Hello and welcome to healthcaremagic Rosacea is characterised by redness, flushing and sometimes papules or pustules. Patients with rosacea have increased sensitivity of the skin to various triggers like sun light, heat, cold, emotional stimuli, spicy foods etc. Apart from avoiding the triggers certain drugs which are knowen to be effective in rosacea are topical metronidazole gel, azaleic acid gel, clindamycin gel. Oral treatment includes tetracyclines like doxycycline, macrolides like erythromycin, azithromycin etc. If you could nt get metronidazole(povidone iodine is of no help in rosacea and is not advisable), you could try azaleic acid cream/gel 10% OR 20%, twice daily. Using a sunscreen also helps in rosacea. Lasers like IPL and Pulse dye laser, KTP Laser are also used in rosacea, mostly for telangiectasias and persistent redness of rosacea. regards