[Social Habits].
There are many tips circulating on the Internet to get rid of spots, which are convenient and cheap. There are many spot removal masks in the circle of friends, and people use them and say their skin becomes white and fine. Beauty salons have potions to spot spots. Laser can get rid of spots, but can it be cured at the root?
[Expert Review
Laser can be said to be the best choice to get rid of spots!
There are many ways to get rid of spots, so how should I choose?
1.White food: Use the vitamin ingredients in food to inhibit the activity of tyrosinase in the skin to effectively reduce the formation of melanin, so as to make the skin white and tender and make the pigmentation fade. Common whitening foods include cucumber, tomato, lemon, white radish, bird’s nest, oatmeal, grapes, etc.. In life, it is good to eat more of this kind of food, but the disadvantage of whitening spots through food is that the effect is too slow, this method can only achieve a certain preventive effect, the effect of removing spots is minimal, the spirit of “water drop through stone” is needed.
2.Ordinary skin care products, mask, beauty salon?
I always advocate that the use of skincare products should be as simple as possible to cleanse, moisturize and protect against sunlight. Once I happened to see everyone’s “Niangniang” Sun Li sent a microblog, which is also the way most dermatologists promote skin care.
A lot of skin care products boast the role of whitening and spot removal, the circle of friends and Taobao is their spot removal products blowing “smashing”, beauty salons are their ability to whiten and remove spots like a wizard hospital, so you can pull out their wallets in minutes, feeling white and beautiful is just around the corner. But when you’re longing for everything to get better, you look back and find yourself further and further down the road of “white and soft” skin. Why? Because in pursuit of quick whitening results, they often add the following things that are prohibited in cosmetics.
First of all, the most added than glucocorticoids, intake of “glucocorticoids” skin is like being injected into the stimulant, can make your skin quickly reach the best state of 18 years old, but this round, full, delicate, white and soft are temporary, like a “passing cloud “The skin is not as smooth as it could be. And, once you stop using it will soon make a “comeback” of skin problems, and roll back or a sandstorm, so that your skin more serious problems, sensitivity, capillary dilation, flushing, itching, aging, atrophy and other kinds of skin problems.
Secondly, the use of mercury and other heavy metals, plus mercury cosmetics have the effect of rapid spot removal, color enhancement and whitening in the short term, but after a short time, the heavy metals will lose their activity and lift the inhibition of melanin, thus causing pigmentation rebound and a lot of pigmentation. Once discontinued, it can also lead to problems such as sudden acne, darkening of pigmentation, and even lifelong skin damage.
Fluorescent agents used on the skin will emit a light blue light just to offset the dull yellow color of the skin, but also slightly translucent, making the skin look clear and white. Some time ago a victim of a toxic mask appeared in the public eye also caused widespread concern, you still dare to use it indiscriminately?
There are also some beauty salons that use drug dabbing, fire needling, and liquid nitrogen freezing methods. These methods have a lot to do with the experience of the operator, so the safety is difficult to control, often pigmentation or even scarring.
3.Medical skin care products and drugs
Many drugs have the effect of whitening and removing spots, and the representative topical drugs include hydroquinone, arbutin, levovitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin A acid, niacinamide, tranexamic acid, fruit acid, etc. and some traditional Chinese medicine. Some medical skin care products often contain high concentrations of these ingredients. Some oral and sedative medications also have the effect of whitening spots, and the whitening injections we often talk about tend to also have these ingredients: reduced glutathione, tranexamic acid (also called tranexamic acid), compound glycyrrhetinic acid, vitamin C with calcium gluconate, etc.
However, these drugs and medical skin care products cannot be purchased and used casually like our skin care products, and should be used under the guidance of a doctor, which can achieve a certain effect on whitening and spot removal, but its disadvantage is still slow effect, and the effect is not as good as laser treatment.
4.Laser or photon spot removal, fast effect, good efficacy and high safety
This technology is undoubtedly the preferred treatment for pigmented diseases, which can break down pigment particles without damaging normal skin.
Most pigmented disorders can be treated with good or even eradicated results, although there are a small number of cases with poor results, such as coffee spots and melasma.
Can pigmentation be cured by laser treatment?
What is “eradication”? Literally, “cure” means to cure completely. Then many people ask, “Why did my freckles rebound after two years? So I don’t dare to say that I can definitely cure it. Because what many people understand as a cure is 100% removal and never reappear.
1. The reason why laser cosmetic treatment has taken the world by storm is that its effect of treating pigmentation is indeed evident to all. Most pigmented skin diseases laser can achieve basic removal: for example: seborrheic keratosis (age spots, sunspots), freckles, nigra, nevus of Ota, freckle-like nevus, brownish nevus, part of the tattoo, and basically will not recur after treatment. No experienced laser treatment doctor can guarantee that all pigmentation spots will be 100% cleared as you want. It is true that most people can achieve almost clearance, but it is true that a few people can only achieve significant reduction, and there will be a little trace after treatment, and this remaining trace will not be visible again with laser treatment. Clinically effective
2.Does it recur after treatment? How long will it take for recurrence? Can you guarantee that it will not grow in the future?
This is the concern of every patient. Here I would like to talk about age spots. Age spots are a kind of pigmentation that has a great relationship with personal constitution and sunlight, and laser treatment can achieve very good results. If you don’t pay attention to sun protection, it is very likely that age spots of different sizes will appear on your whole skin continuously. That’s why we always emphasize the importance of sun protection.
3.At the same time, there are some pigmentation spots that are very easy to recur after treatment.
For example, in the treatment of coffee spots, the cases of recurrence after treatment are very common. Many coffee spot patients are often ecstatic after one treatment because they find that the coffee spots are completely gone after the scabs fall off in about 2 days, but we have to remind you that about half of the patients will relapse within 3 months, and it is very likely that they will return to the previous state as if they had not been treated. In order to reduce the recurrence, often we recommend several repeated treatments, and if there is still little improvement in the lesions after about 3 treatments before giving up the treatment.
4.The treatment of melasma.
Melasma is a multifactorial disease, influenced by genetics, endocrine, ultraviolet rays, diet, drugs, emotions and many other aspects. It is the most common cosmetic problem and the biggest treatment problem back then, and there is no real cure so far. Due to the complex and diverse causes of melasma, we suggest that the treatment should be individualized and combined to improve and control melasma.
Here is an example: Treatment for freckle patients
1.Makeup to cover up: Patients with freckles are often ridiculed by others as “pockmarked”, so girls usually use BB cream or foundation to cover them up, but this method can only cover some light-colored spots, if the color is a little darker, even concealer cannot cover them completely.
2.Other treatment methods
Light spot essence, mask? These methods need a lot of patience, the effect is slow, and it is hard to remove freckles.
3.Laser or phototherapy
The best treatment method for freckles is high-tech Q-switch laser and photon, which are fast, effective and safe. Although the color of freckles will be more obvious than the original one in a few days after treatment, it feels like the pigment is “sucked out”, then the scab will fall off and your face will become white and smooth afterwards. After the scabs fall off, many patients are excited to look at themselves in the mirror and marvel at the magic of laser and photon, feeling like they have “finally cleaned their face” and like a new person.
How many treatments are needed?
Generally speaking, 1-2 sessions are usually enough to basically remove the freckles on your face, but the results of treatment are highly dependent on the nature of your underlying skin and the shade of your freckles. I classify the types of freckles into the following types according to the state of the basal skin and freckle color: white plus black type (i.e. the basal skin color is white and the freckle color is dark), black plus black type, white plus white type, combined with melasma type, combined with skin sensitivity.
After this classification, I can well inform the patients about the effect and risk of treatment, and also facilitate me to choose the appropriate treatment.
The white plus black type has the best effect, the clearance rate is very high, and the chance of side effects is small; the black plus black type and white plus white type are the second, and the basal skin is deeper, and the chance of pigmentation spots will be larger, but don’t worry, this kind of pigmentation is generally light and can slowly fade away, or use to go to treatment; when treating patients with combined melasma type and combined skin sensitivity, while pursuing the treatment effect attention should be paid to protect the basal skin and improve the safety of treatment.
Should I choose laser or phototherapy?
First of all, both treatment methods are ideal, but generally speaking, laser treatment is stronger, but the skin reaction after treatment is also relatively stronger. Its biggest advantage is that while treating freckles, it can also achieve many cosmetic effects, such as improving skin texture and skin brightness. I will choose according to the specific situation of the patient, and sometimes I will choose to combine the two treatments, each of which has its own advantages and can complement each other.
4.Does freckles recur after being cured? Or can the freckles be completely removed and never grow back?
Therefore, there is a possibility of recurrence after treatment. From our experience and follow-up, the possibility of recurrence exists, but it is not high, and the time of recurrence varies from as short as one year to as long as ten years. There are many factors that affect the recurrence of freckles: personal constitution, sun protection measures, life habits, and so on. The chance of recurrence is greatly reduced or the interval of recurrence is prolonged by good sun protection, regular life, sufficient sleep and more fruits and vegetables. Fortunately, even if freckles recur again, the same laser or photon treatment can be used and effective.
[Opinion].
In the clinic of dermatologists, there are more and more patients with hormone dependent dermatitis. Therefore, I hope that girls will cherish their skin and stay away from irregular and unscientific treatment, so that they will not become the next poor victim of “hormone dependent dermatitis” and “fluorescent face”.
Spot removal is a medical beauty project, and the behavior of beauty clubs actually constitutes false propaganda or illegal practice of medicine. There are some pigmentation spots that can be satisfactorily cleared by a single laser treatment, while others require a combination of sunscreen, medication, laser or photon treatment.