Blu Light Treatment Actinic Keratosis

You will be given goggles to wear as eye protection during the blue light treatment.

Blu light treatment actinic keratosis.

Then your doctor will point a strong red or blue light at your skin to switch on the drug and destroy actinic keratosis. The treatment can precisely destroy the pre cancerous growths causing little damage to the surrounding healthy tissue. These feelings of discomfort should improve by the end of the light treatment. First you take a medicine that makes your skin more sensitive to light.

The exception to this may be photodynamic therapy on high risk areas for cancer. Blue light therapy is an fda approved in office treatment for actinic keratoses precancerous lesions. Prior to blue light treatment the actinic keratoses will be rinsed with tap water. Blue light therapy for actinic keratosis can help treat and reduce the number of precancers potentially reducing the number of full fledged skin cancers and helping in photo rejuvenation.

Blue light therapy treatment is usually a very quick process and is almost always done as an outpatient procedure. Actinic keratosis ak s rough scaly and potentially dangerous patches or bumps that appear on the skin surface can now be effectively treated with blue light. If left untreated ak s can develop into skin cancers called squamous cell carcinomas. According to the skin cancer foundation blue light therapy or pdt is an fda approved treatment for actinic keratosis.

The blue light is of low intensity and will not heat the skin. Insurances typically cover the full cost of the treatment but this varies by insurance. During the treatment we apply a topical photosensitizing drug to the skin. However during the light treatment which lasts 16 minutes you will experience sensations of tingling stinging prickling or burning of the treated spots.