Dr. Nase Speaks Out On IPL Gone Bad

I was burned with the pulse dye laser by the Chair of the Dept.of Dermatology at U. of Pittsburg. I was in the burn unit for two days and had to wear special burn moistened gauze for 21 days. My face was a mess, even worse than my severe symptoms to begin with. But, my face recovered solely due to photoderm treatments which I was scared to death of having performed. You get burned once and you never forget. So, the skin has an amazing capacity for healing and many frustrated posters will regain normal tone and possibly improve with more time. If you followed my posts before I left, I did mention the best route to take for this adverse reaction -- I strongly suggested that those sufferers who experienced redder skin after three or four treatments (not just one as this is very common) -- the doctor should perform 6 to eight patch tests to determine your skin's best energy level, pulse duration and pulse delay (they usually due this for free). Then re-evaluate. If this does not work out, the 590 filter is the best fail safe filter to use. You can use this in the one pulse mode and long pulse durations.
Your chances for full recovery are excellent based on tens of thousands of rosacea treatments. I would sincerely suggest that you actually continue (I know it does not make sense now), but they just need to find the sweet spot. If this does not work, then the V-beam with a moderate level of 4 to 5joules could be very beneficial. In my eight years of analysis and treatment of patients, you dont stop because the face becomes redder, the physician learns from this and adapts to find a bettertreatment parameter. You also should rarely consider stopping treatment if transient blisters appear as they always go away and rarely (less than 1% leave any scar). The only time to stop is if you are burned and this does not happen with photoderm, it only happens with the pulsed dye lasers.

Geoffrey

Dr. Geoffrey NasePh.D.
Neurovascular Physiologist

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