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How inflammation can heal your skin
27th March 2017
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Discover how acute inflammation can heal your skin. However you wish to your skin or treat like acne, rosacea, pigmentation, sun damage, ageing or abnormality; by inducing acute inflammation the repair can beginning.
Lets take a look at different types of inflammation
Acute inflammation can be caused by many factors from a disease process, bacterial infection to irritating chemicals and UV sun exposure, even your lifestyle and diet can affect your skin. Your body fights this inflammation and areas of skin can become red, hot and itchy. If unfortunately your body loses this battle the inflammation will become chronic, this type of is destructive to your body and more specifically your skin. Progression to chronic inflammation dysfunction, alteration in your skin texture, true sensitivity, changes, it does not respond well to treatment, healing and accelerates aging. Luckily Dr has been 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 . Initially with Nu Derm and now with ZO his are at the of skin .
In traditional medical skin care does not or skin health. It on the skin problem and not the issues lying underneath. rather than the cause does not give the results are for. In order to treat chronic inflammation Dr Obagi uses products to stimulate acute inflammation.
Changing chronic skin sites into acutely inflamed areas triggers the body’s own .
Some patients on the program with a violent and phase when to the ZO . Others demonstrated minimal or no to the same agents. As a result an anti was added to the skin health restoration products. These help reduce violent skin response to your treatment.
Repair phase
Having acute inflammation in order to heal your skin problems we then need to ensure we prevent a recurrence back to the chronic cycle. By using the correct products in the proper concentration, frequency and amount Dr Hemming a 2-6week repair phase. During this time you may have of acute phase response 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 abnormality the initial 2-6 weeks will be the most difficult for you. Following this you will see in your skin as you transition into the improvement phase (at the 6-12 week point) and finally phase (12-18 weeks).
Stability phases
As your skin moves the phases it will become more stable. Finally the point where your skin concerns have been addressed. pulses of more intense can be used to get you there a 3 step peel, or at home peel, if needed. As your skin and reaches your point you can on a plan. All and blending HQ products should be at 5 months to prevent and rebound hyperpigmentation. can be using antioxidants, DNA repair agents and anti irritant agents.
For more information about Obagi ZO skin health and with Dr Anna Hemming
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