Permanent risks of laser hair removal treatments
People might not take into consideration some of the risks associated with laser hair removal treatments.
Some common side effects most people know of are the unwanted slight bruising and minor burns which can happen during a laser session. Some side effects happen when people walk in the sun and get their skin exposed right after a laser treatment causing some severe burns and redness to the skin.
(by the way the most dangerous long term risk of laser hair removal, will not be those burns or even scarring, exposure to the SUN is the main cause for skin cancer and not the laser treatment itself)
But some of the more long term dangers of laser hair removal might be skin discolorations.
We will review here some safety rules that will help you pass safely the laser hair removal treatments
Some common side effects most people know of are the unwanted slight bruising and minor burns which can happen during a laser session. Some side effects happen when people walk in the sun and get their skin exposed right after a laser treatment causing some severe burns and redness to the skin.
(by the way the most dangerous long term risk of laser hair removal, will not be those burns or even scarring, exposure to the SUN is the main cause for skin cancer and not the laser treatment itself)
But some of the more long term dangers of laser hair removal might be skin discolorations.
We will review here some safety rules that will help you pass safely the laser hair removal treatments
Skin discolorations
There are two main laser skin discolorations people suffer from at laser hair removal treatments.
1. Hyper-pigmentation (dark patches).
2. Hypo-pigmentation (white spots).
1. Hyper-pigmentation (dark patches).
2. Hypo-pigmentation (white spots).
Hyper-Pigmentations
Those are skin discolorations pigmentation that can happen when the body produces much more Melanin than needed. This can occur when the cell gets too much light from the laser treatment, and melanin production gets boosted up.
Hypo-Pigmentation
Those are white spots that might show up after a treatment with laser hair removal machines. The hypopigmentation is permanent danger of laser hair removal, it happens when the body melanin production is damaged so much it can not manufacture any more color shades for the skin. Like Albino syndrome white skin spots show, and as mentioned there is nothing that can be done to change this, except some extra laser and Microdermabrasion treatments.