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How inflammation can heal your skin
Published 27th March 2017
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Discover how acute inflammation can heal your skin. However you wish to improve your skin or treat like acne, rosacea, pigmentation, sun damage, ageing or abnormality; by inducing acute the repair process can beginning.
Lets take a look at different types of inflammation
Acute inflammation can be caused by many from a process, infection to irritating chemicals and UV sun exposure, even your and diet can affect your skin. Your body fights this inflammation and areas of skin can become red, hot and itchy. If your body loses this battle the will become chronic, this type of is destructive to your body and more specifically your skin. to inflammation cellular dysfunction, alteration in your skin texture, true sensitivity, changes, it does not respond well to treatment, and accelerates aging. Luckily Dr Hemming has been personally by a man determined to find a way to heal your skin.
Tackling chronic inflammation using acute inflammation to heal your skin
Dr Obagi has spent 40 years researching and ways to treat chronic skin inflammation. Initially with Nu Derm and now with ZO his treatments are at the forefront of skin science.
In medical skin care does not address inflammation or skin health. It focuses on the skin problem and not the issues lying underneath. Treating symptoms rather than the cause does not give the results patients are looking for. In order to treat chronic inflammation Dr Obagi uses to acute inflammation.
Changing skin sites into acutely inflamed areas the body’s own .
Some patients on the program responded with a violent and prolonged phase when introduced to the ZO formulations. Others demonstrated minimal or no to the same agents. As a result an anti irritant was added to the skin health products. These help reduce violent skin to your treatment.
Repair phase
Having acute inflammation in order to heal your skin problems we then need to ensure we prevent a back to the inflammation cycle. By using the correct in the proper concentration, and amount Dr Hemming creates a 2-6week repair phase. During this time you may have of acute phase redness, dryness, irritation, peeling. This is all normal and should be expected in order to heal the deeper damage in your skin layers.
No matter what your final skin goal, you must go the repair phase to ensure you heal your skin . you are treating acne, rosacea, melasma, sun damage, ageing or textural the initial 2-6 weeks will be the most for you. Following this you will see improvement in your skin as you transition into the phase (at the 6-12 week point) and phase (12-18 weeks).
Stability phases
As your skin moves through the phases it will become more stable. Finally reaching the point where your skin concerns have been addressed. Further pulses of more intense treatment can be used to get you there a 3 step peel, or at home peel, if needed. As your skin and reaches your comfort point you can continue on a maintenance plan. All bleaching and blending HQ products should be stopped at 5 months to prevent and rebound . can be using antioxidants, DNA repair agents and anti irritant agents.
For more about Obagi ZO skin health and consultations with Dr Anna Hemming
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