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What is acne light treatment? What can it do to help me?

Acne vulgaris or acne is a common human skin disease that causes pimples. Pimples mostly form on the neck, chest, back, face and shoulders and it’s most typical on teenagers though anyone can get acne. Although it is not a serious disease but can cause scars and the one of the safest ways to fight acne is to undergo an acne light treatment.

Acne happens when sebaceous glands come to life around puberty. The oil from this gland stimulates bacteria that live in everyone’s skin to multiply and cause surrounding tissues to become inflamed. It causes two types of scars, atrophic scars and keloid and hypertrophic scars. Some factors like hereditary, foods, dirt, stress, hormonal, and cosmetics can cause acne and the right time to treat this is when it bothers you.

Traditional treatment of acne has caused intense pain to the people who have gone through this treatment, having to endure the pricking of pimples to take out white heads, black heads and injections to extract the pus out from the bigger and stubborn zits. The technology behind blue light treatment is based on the human skins natural reaction to specific spectrum light. Acne that does not respond to topical ointments and other treatments can now be effectively treated with acne light treatment. Studies shows that 85% of people who undergo this treatment are garnering positive results.

Light therapy for acne is also known as phototherapy and works by removing the bacteria that causes acne. Acne blue light therapy is one of the completely natural method and best available acne treatments. This type of treatment is becoming a popular acne remedy because it is fairly easy and a drug-free way to help heal the blemishes. Zeno is the latest innovative that is an early acne prevention tool.

Acne light treatment is artificial solar radiation that can cause acne causing bacteria or P.acne to be destroyed by specifically the blue light. Blue light is natural and not harmful to the skin and has no side effects like ultraviolet rays.  Once the skin is exposed to the blue light, it causes certain mechanism which kills the acne causing bacteria. The treatment last only 15 minutes per session, sometimes there are slight side effects like redness, stinging, dryness and some skin discoloration but all are just temporary.

There are three different type of laser acne treatment. Heat Energy/ Pulsed Light, this therapy is believed to kill P. acnes. It also sinks the sebaceous glands thereby reduces the production of oil. Blue light Therapy, this low intensity blue light treatment kills P. Acnes but this application may require numerous treatments. Diode laser therapy, this type focuses on the sebaceous glands in the dermis or middle layer of skin without harming the outer layer of skin.

The major advantage when using this acne treatment is that no medications are taken orally which can cause complications. The best thing to do is ask your dermatologist before you take any actions on your acne.