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How inflammation can heal your skin

Published 27th March 2017
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Expert Reviewed By

how acute inflammation can heal your skin. However you wish to improve your skin or treat problems like acne, rosacea, pigmentation, sun damage, ageing or abnormality; by 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 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 cayuses dysfunction, alteration in your skin texture, true sensitivity, pigmentation changes, it does not respond well to treatment, and accelerates aging. Dr 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 developing ways to treat chronic skin .  with Nu Derm and now with ZO his treatments are at the of skin .

In medical practice skin care does not or skin health. It on the superficial skin problem and not the issues lying underneath. Treating symptoms rather than the cause does not give the results are looking for. In order to treat chronic Dr Obagi uses to acute inflammation.

chronic skin sites into acutely inflamed areas triggers the body’s own healing mechanisms.

Some on the responded with a  and prolonged phase when introduced to the ZO formulations. Others minimal or no reaction to the same agents. As a result an anti was added to the skin health products. These help reduce skin to your .

Repair phase

Having induced acute in order to heal your skin problems we then need to ensure we prevent a recurrence back to the chronic inflammation cycle. By using the in the proper concentration, frequency and amount Dr Hemming creates a 2-6week repair phase. During this time you may have symptoms 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 healing goal, you must go through the repair phase to ensure you heal your skin . Whether you are treating acne, rosacea, melasma, sun damage, ageing or textural the initial 2-6 weeks will be the most difficult for you. Following this you will see improvement in your skin as you transition into the improvement 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 the point where your skin have been . Further pulses of more intense can be used to get you there including a 3 step peel, invisapeel or at home peel, if needed. As your skin improves and reaches your point you can continue on a maintenance plan. All bleaching and HQ products should be at 5 months to prevent resistance and rebound hyperpigmentation.   can be using antioxidants, DNA repair agents and anti irritant agents.

For more information about Obagi ZO skin health and consultations with Dr Anna Hemming

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