Vascular lesions occur in many sizes, shapes and forms all over the body. These lesions occur in a variety of forms including port wine stains, broken capillaries, hemangiomas, and cherry angiomas.
Rosacea is a common inflammatory skin condition that usually affects only the face and eyes. Characterized by redness, pimples, and broken blood vessels, rosacea tends to begin in middle age, between the ages of 30 and 60, and is more common in fair-skinned people. It is often mistaken for adult acne.
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What causes vascular lesions?
Vascular lesions are the result of numerous or large vessels that form directly underneath the skin. This usually results in a red appearance of the skin since the vessels are visible through the skin. The most common causes of vascular lesions are environmental (sun and weather extremes), age, genetics, hormonal fluctuations, pregnancy, or even high bloodpressure.
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What causes Rosacea?
Although there are many theories on what triggers rosacea the actual cause of it is unknown. It is believed that triggers causing episodes of flushing and blushing play a part in the development of rosacea. Triggers can include, exposure to temperature extremes, strenuous exercise, severe sunburn, stress, anxiety, certain medications and topical irritants, alcohol, sun exposure, spicy foods, hot drinks, saunas and steam-rooms often worsen rosacea episodes.
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What treatment options are available for vascular lesions and Rosacea?
Start with avoiding known triggers especially sun exposure. Always wear a high SPF zinc based sunblock for example Elixxir’s ultimate zinc. Avoiding other irritants such as alcohol, spicy foods, saunas, perfumes and weather extremes can also help.
Skin treatments Ensure you are using appropriate skincare designed to calm inflamed, sensitive or rosacea skin types. The wrong skincare can actually irritate the skin increasing the symptoms of rosacea and vascular lesions.
Retinoids like Retin-A are usually too irritating for rosaceous skin but using a retinaldehyde like Elixxirs Tranquility A can help reduce redness and improve the skins integrity.
Med-facials
Elixxir medical-grade skin treatments restore and repair your skin, leaving you with a youthful radiance. They are formulated to stimulate new collagen production whilst increasing the elasticity of your skin. Medical-grade skin treatments can also rebuild and repair damaged skin and improve the redness caused by vascular disorders such as broken capillaries.
Unlike traditional facials, medical skin treatments use advanced ingredients to transform the skin without inflaming it. At the same time, they replenish nutrients in deeper layers of the skin, giving the outer layers more vitality.
Optimised pulsed light
OPL treatments destroy the vascular lesions associated with rosacea and broken blood vessels on the chest, neck and face.
OPL targets capillaries specifically, which leads to more effective reduction in vessels with less damage to the surrounding skin, and therefore less redness and downtime.
It uses a process called ‘selective photothermolysis’ to target pigmented cells in the skin. They selectively absorb the light energy as heat, which then destroys the damaged skin. These optimal wavelengths of light target the pigment of hemoglobin (for redness). Vascular lesions blanch and then resolve within 10 to 14 days.
Most clients see a significant improvement in their symptoms following one session; though several sessions maybe recommended to ensure the best result and maintenance may be required.
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Why have your vascular lesions or Rosacea treated at Elixxir medispa?
Our team of highly trained nurses and aestheticians under the direction of Dr Michael Miroshnik combine the latest medical grade products and technology to help you address your aesthetic concerns. We are results driven and strive to ensure every patient leaves our clinic, educated, refreshed and confident.
