Sunday, April 17, 2011

Spots on the skin: how to treat and prevent them

Spots on the skin affecting the face, are a blemish rather annoying and unpleasant to see that often forces them to having to make up much of the "opaque". But what must be the onset of skin spots? When not angiomas or "desires" present from birth, are usually caused by exposure to sunlight without adequate protection.

Especially in conjunction with hormonal factors, as in pregnancy or during periods when you take birth control pills high dose estrogen, the sun can alter the homogeneity of melanin in the face and create areas of hyperpigmentation, such as pregnancy mask and lentigo solar. Once appeared, sunspots do not go away very easily, especially the usual remedies are not enough of the grandmother as milk or lemon, that have whitening effect.

Then you have to go to a good dermatologist, who will refer you to treatment centers performing "wipe" stains safely and without side effects for your skin. The methods used are mainly two: the laser and chemical peeling. We see the first. In fact you have two options for this type of treatment: the fractional laser, and Q-Switched laser.

In both cases the results are guaranteed. Each session (usually you only need 1 or 2), takes about 20 minutes at a cost of 500 € (yes, I know!) And for the next month is necessary to protect the skin very well with very high protection factor creams. We are peeling. It 'made with exfoliating acids in this way: During the session, the doctor stretches the face with a brush, the substances selected for removing stains.

Expects to take effect and then removes the mask. The treatment ends with the application of a nice soothing cream with high sun protection. In the following days the skin esfolierà alone, with a cell renewal that will create a replacement of the upper layer of the dermis (the "spotted").

This treatment is repeated more than once (of course depend on the depth of the stain) at a cost of about € 250 per session. The salicylic acid peel is very effective in this case, the sessions will be from 2 to 5, a distance of at least 2 weeks apart at a cost of 300 € each. It goes without saying that this is not to carry out treatments in the summer, or whenever you plan to go to the beach.

Last advice: since prevention is better than cure, every time you do it in the sun after your skin properly protected.

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