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Peeling treatment to exfoliate and eliminate skin imperfections

Peeling treatment to exfoliate and eliminate skin imperfections

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Created by: Top Doctors editorial
Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 18/03/2019

The peeling is a treatment with chemicals which can treat acne, spots or melasma cloth and rejuvenate the skin. Must make a correct selection of the appropriate chemical for the patient.

Dr.. Labastida Olga Gomez de la Torre

facial peeling Peeling is an American word used to name the application procedures acids exfoliate the skin or eliminate certain layers of it and produce a new skin.

Peeling, to rejuvenate, treat acne and help remove stains from cloth or melasma

Chemical peels are 3 main directions, one is for active acne, as they may contain substances to dry acne lesions and make them move faster, but they are always a complement to therapy acne used, either topically or taken; Another application is for rejuvenation, usually there a number of peelings in which increases the concentration of liquid being applied or made a single session with a very strong liquid and an improvement occurs in wrinkles in quality or brightness are made of the skin. The third application is when used as an adjuvant or something that helps remove stains from cloth or melasma that people faster, but never used as single but combined therapy.

Careful patient selection and the liquid for peeling

To perform a chemical peel must first select the patient properly and acid or liquid to be used to make skin exfoliation. The skin sometimes is prepared in advance with some topical products and when the procedure is done is cleaned very well for the liquid to penetrate better. It applies liquid for a while and then neutralized. They are given at the end of indications to the patient how to care for the skin to form new skin with proper care.

Possible side effects of peeling

Peels can have side effects, among them are hyperpigmentation or brown spot after peeling, which is mostly related to the skin color of the patient and with the liquid that was used, if it is a soft and deep peeling in very few cases and rarely may be abnormal healing, this is usually related to misapplication or a patient's tendency to heal abnormally, sometimes new skin that appears after a peeling of long duration can be red, the posttreatment erythema of peeling is something that should last a short time is very long and when should follow.

Dermatology