SKIN RENEWAL WITH IPL PHOTOFACIAL

Science and technology has come a long way in recent years. Now with various techniques you can retain your beauty and can also get your skin renewed. Skin renewal isn’t a new technique but it got a massive boom with the emergence of IPL Photofacials. Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) Photofacials has taken the medical world with a stride as now it has been used regularly by many people. Anyone who wishes to put full stop to the increasing age, simply go for skin renewal via IPL Photofacials.

IPL Photofacials can effectively treat various body parts and damages such as sun damage, age spots or sun-induced freckles, broken capillaries, telangiectasias, and benign brown pigments. All these problems are effectively treated with no side effects. IPL Photofacial has emerged as the most exciting technology in today’s aesthetic environment. It not just corrects various skin conditions and facial imperfections but actually reverse them all.

This skin renewal treatment is different from laser procedure as it is a carefully tested and perfected therapy providing long-term improvement. This long-term improvement is not restricted to the complexion but also to texture of an entire area. FDA approved IPL Photofacials effectively treats the skin and eliminate all signs of aging. This skin renewal treatment is very easy to undergo as the emitted pulsed light eliminates all age spots, freckles, broken capillaries, and signs of rosacea. Apart from that it simultaneously stimulates collagen production.

The biggest advantage of IPL Photofacials is that you can experience the changes within a few treatments. You will see smoother and firmer skin, marking a significant decrease in fine lines and light wrinkles. Now you don’t have to suffer long periods of healing, prolonged redness and discomfort while renewing your skin. IPL Photofacials can be easily and effectively performed on any area you desire such as hands, chest and neck.

With the help of IPL Photofacials treatment you can curb the signs of aging by reducing fine lines and scars, thinning of enlarged pores, reducing sun damage and photo-aging, eliminating the redness, flushing and appearance of rosacea, and many more. If you wish to go for skin renewal, Advanced Laser Clinics is there at your service. Advanced Laser Clinics is the one stop shop for all your skin queries and problems.

To treat your skin effectively, Advanced Laser Clinics customize a treatment program for you. This treatment program is crafted as per your specific wants, needs and desired results. This will determine the number of treatment you’ll be undergoing. All the treatments offered at Advanced Laser Clinics are provided by highly-trained & professional technicians.

AGE SPOTS REMOVAL TREATMENTS

AGE SPOTS REMOVAL TREATMENTS

Age spots removal is the biggest concern for the people touching their 40s. Being a telltale sign of one’s age, majority people look for the ways to treat and reduce them. Also known as liver spots, sun spots, or lentigines, they are usually flat, harmless brown skin discolorations occurring on hands, face and neck.

Age spots are mainly caused by over exposure to the sun for many years, and it can only be cut down by using sunscreen regularly. They are flat, harmless patches of increased pigment, like freckles that increase in number as we get older. The only question that pops up is - should we worry about it? The answer can be yes as well as no.

Though cosmetically worrisome, age spots aren’t that threatening and do not need to be treated. Moreover, it is not a coincidence that age spots normally appear on the backs of hands and necks, forearms and the face. In short, all those body parts that receive the maximum sun exposure. According to the experts, age spots are a reflection of considerable sun damage. They can be easily repaired by age spots removal treatment. Excessive sun damage which is not treated on time means there is an increased risk for skin cancer.

You will be amazed to know that skin cancer is the most common form of cancer. It has affected one in seven Americans. But if it is caught early and treated by age spot removal treatment, it has shown 90 percent cure rate. Age spots can be divided into three types of carcinomas. Those are basal cell (the most common), squamous cell and melanoma, the deadliest form. There is a misconception that melanoma is a raised bump. This is partially true as it can also be flat. ‘Prevention is better than cure’, this quote may be cliché but is the best step taken.

If you wish to avoid age spots removal treatment then the only option you have is protection from sun. Try to cut down sun exposure by wearing protective clothing accompanied with your sunscreen. But this does not mean you can stay out in the sun twice as long. You need to apply sunscreen regularly and also after swimming. When we talk about protective clothing, you can find some of the new high-tech materials offering SPF protection. This type of clothes contains brighteners and resigns that easily absorb ultra violet, or UV, light.

Age spots removal is the most common treatment available at various skin care centers but it’s Advanced Laser Clinics that heads the list. Advanced Laser Clinics is Chicago’s best skin care clinic offering various treatments.

SKIN CARE, INSECT BITES AND STINGS #2

Blister beetles are insects, whose bodily fluid contains substances, such as “Cantharidine” and “Pederine”, which can produce blisters. By night the beetles are attracted to light, thus guiding them to humans. When the insect is crushed on the human skin, local irritation (redness, swelling, burning feeling), as well as blisters, will appear after a few hours. The clinical image is one of burns. Sometimes “kissing lesions” are seen at the elbows or knees.

Rubbing the toxin into one’s eyes, may cause irritation or the “Nairobi eye”. The skin should first be rinsed abundantly and then disinfected. Finally the same skin care as for burns (such as a cream with silver sulfadiazine, e.g. Flammazine®) may be applied. Skin injuries caused by Cantharidine heal almost entirely without leaving scars. Injuries caused by Pederine become visible only after 1 or 2 days, the redness is more serious and may persist a couple of months.

The larvae of certain flies use humans as host. In Africa, some flies lay their eggs on, among other things, drying laundry. The larvae subsequently burrow into the skin, in order to develop there. The lesion that they produce resembles a boil, which is more itchy than painful, and at its centre two black spots can be seen (respiratory pores) instead of yellow pus.

Laundry that has been hung out to dry in the tropics is therefore best ironed with a hot iron in order to destroy larvae. In South America some fly larvae get directly on to the skin via mosquitoes.

People who run around barefooted run a greater risk of insect bites, wounds and parasites that get into the body via the skin of the feet, such as ancylostomiasis, strongyloidosis, sand
fleas and larva cutanea migrans.

The latter are two typical skin parasitoses:

• Tungiasis: after fertilization, the female sand flea or jigger (Tunga penetrans) penetrates the skin, especially at the feet and under the toenails. She burrows into the epidermis and continues to grow. After a few weeks a pea-sized, initially itchy and then painful lesion appears resembling a boil but with a central black spot. With a little practice, the adult fly can be completely removed by carefully peeling away the epidermis with a needle or a sharp instrument. Subsequent disinfection of the wound is of the great importance.
  

• Cutaneous larva migrans is caused by parasites that accidentally infect humans, usually hookworms from dogs or cats. The parasite gets into the skin when this gets in contact with mud or sand fouled with animal excrement e.g. on the beach (only on dry sand but not on the damp part of the beach, below the tide line where it is best to wear shoes and sit on a towel), around swimming pools or by running around barefoot. These parasites usually die after penetration, though some survive and slowly migrate through the epidermis, thereby causing severe itching, threadlike lines of skin rash, mostly on the hands and feet, and sometimes on the buttocks and thighs. This requires specific treatment.

Irritation, mostly limited to local reactions of the skin, can also be caused lice, fleas, bedbugs, scabies, ticks, leeches and hairy caterpillars.

When coming in contact with jellyfish, rinsing the skin with vinegar (5-8% acetic acid) for about 30 minutes is recommended. A topical corticosteroid cream is then applied.

Spiders, scorpions and snakes are most frightening but they only represent a small risk.

• Scorpions are usually most active at night and walking around barefoot after sunset is not a good idea. When you get up in the morning, check your shoes for scorpions that might have crept into them during the night. A scorpion sting is quite painful, but symptoms are usually restricted to a local reaction. In some countries, however, for small children, the sting can be fatal.
  

• Snakes hide mainly in dense undergrowth and under stones, sometimes in termite mounds or damp, dark garden sheds, etc. After a rain shower snakes often seek out open spaces. They normally stay away from humans and they bite only in selfdefence. About 375 of the approximately 2700 snake species are venomous. Bites by venomous snakes are not always accompanied by an actual injection of venom and symptoms of poisoning. The interval between bite and eventual death is very variable. The prognosis depends on many factors, including the general condition of the individual and the treatment.

Prevention
Never walk through long grass, or if you do have to walk across pastureland:

• Wear sturdy high boots.

• Make the ground vibrate by treading heavily or by banging with a stick in front of you.

• Use a torch when it is dark.

• Avoid putting an unprotected hand in holes between stones or rocks.

Treatment

• Whatever you do, do not panic panic;

• Seek suitable medical help as quickly as possible;

• Avoid dangerous procedures such as incision, sucking out the wound, tourniquets, etc. The use of the Aspivenin® suction device for snakebites is very controversial, as in animal trials it only sucked out 30% (at best) of the venom, even when used within three minutes after a snakebite.
  

• Immobilisation and a lymphatic bandage is the only recommended technique (do not tie off, wrap a wide bandage tightly around the affected limb for a maximum of 1 hour)
  

• If possible, the dead snake should be brought in for identification (but beware of recently killed snakes since they still have a bite reflex);
  

• Treatment with antivenom is necessary only in the event of specific symptoms of poisoning such as haemorrhage, local tissue necrosis or paralysis. Antivenom is still effective, even when administered at a late stage. The address of Poison Control Centres can be obtained from the ITM. It is not possible to take antiserum with you if the correct storage temperature cannot be continuously guaranteed, and if there is no one available who is competent and knowledgeable enough to administer the antiserum (more than 50% risk of allergic reactions).

Do not touch dogs or cats because of the real danger of rabies in tropical countries (equally in large towns). Be vigilant especially with children around.