When a common skin condition’s best-known patient is also the poster boy for excessive drinking, you know there’s bound to be some unflattering associations. Thank you, W.C. Fields, for helping to pair rosacea and alcohol. Not only is his reddish and bulbous nose is a telltale sign of severe rosacea left untreated, but it has become synonymous with alcohol abuse. And that leaves many of the 14 million Americans with rosacea red-faced for a reason besides their skin condition.
