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I believe that those who have experienced medical beauty treatments, after laser, water light, mesotherapy and other treatments, the doctor will constantly emphasize the use of medical masks or cold compresses at home during the post-operative medical instructions, especially in the first 3 days after the treatment. Why is this? Is the medical mask or cold compress really necessary? This article will help you answer.
First of all, we need to know what the skin condition is like after medical aesthetics. The skin is the first barrier to protect the internal organs of the human body and resist external factors. The application of photoelectric technology in medical treatment is mostly based on the principle of photothermal or electrothermal effect, which often causes varying degrees of thermal damage to skin tissue during treatment. It mainly manifests in the following aspects:
1. Changes in skin structure
Non-ablative and non-invasive treatments are the mainstream of photoelectric treatments. Although this type of treatment does not directly destroy the integrity of the skin, it still changes or affects the structure of the skin. For example, pulsed dye lasers can close blood vessels, Q-switched lasers or picosecond lasers can blast melanin particles, and fractional lasers can produce columnar coagulation zones and other skin effects.
2. Changes in cell function
Photoelectric treatments usually produce thermal effects. Before the temperature rises to a destructive effect, it may interfere with the normal function of epidermal cells and affect enzyme activity, thereby impairing the skin barrier function. Some treatments are not targeted at the surface of the skin, such as treatments for the fascia layer or fat layer. However, when energy enters the skin, even if auxiliary skin cooling is used, the accumulated temperature may still have a blow to the skin barrier.
Mesotherapy such as water light and microneedle therapy directly injects various active substances into the dermis or deeper layers through the skin. The drugs produce micro-deposits locally and slowly penetrate into the underlying tissues. The mechanical damage caused by the needle during the operation will also temporarily destroy the skin barrier function.
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Secondly, we need to understand the actual situation of skin barrier damage caused by medical aesthetic treatments.
These tissue thermal and mechanical injuries caused by photoelectric, mesotherapy and other related treatments damage the skin barrier function, which is characterized by decreased skin water content and increased transepidermal water loss, leading to erythema, edema, dryness and other discomforts, and may even cause pigmentation or hypopigmentation and scars. Among them, the most common manifestations are dry erythema and edema.
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What is the role of medical masks after medical beauty treatment?
A study selected 142 patients who received laser cosmetic treatment and divided them into a control group and an observation group using a random double-blind method, with 71 cases in each group. Among them, there were 38 patients with damaging laser and 33 patients with non-damaging laser in the control group. There were 35 patients with damaging laser and 36 patients with non-damaging laser in the observation group. The control group received routine postoperative laser care, including keeping clean, paying attention to sun protection, and not wearing makeup for 24 hours. The observation group received routine postoperative laser care + use of a medical mask within 1 week after surgery. The mask was stored at low temperature and applied cold to the face for 20 minutes, twice a day. Routine laser postoperative care is the same as that of the control group.
The results of the study showed that using a facial mask one week after laser surgery can help reduce facial redness, swelling, heat and pain, and using a facial mask can improve patient satisfaction. This is because the appearance of redness, swelling, heat and pain after laser surgery brings an uncomfortable experience, which can easily increase the patient’s anxiety and affect the prognosis. The facial mask has the effect of physically cooling the skin, and some effective ingredients in the mask essence, including hyaluronic acid, growth factors, collagen, etc., can help skin repair, which can significantly reduce the occurrence of redness, swelling, heat and pain in the laser area, greatly improving the patient’s comfort and increasing satisfaction.
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Summarize
1. Traditional facial cold compresses or ice compresses have a certain effect. However, the ice pack is hard and not easy to fix, has a small contact area with the patient’s face, poor fit, and makes the patient feel uncomfortable. It is also difficult to achieve uniform and precise cooling of the treatment area.
2. Medical masks have the function of hydrating and repairing. Although patients with damaging lasers can reduce redness, swelling, heat and pain to a certain extent after using masks, the recovery process is longer than that of non-damaging lasers, so the degree of reduction of redness, swelling, heat and pain is smaller than that of non-damaging lasers.
3. After laser treatment, patients can effectively relieve pain, burning sensation, redness and swelling by using facial cold compress masks. It is safe, comfortable, and has high patient satisfaction, which is worthy of clinical promotion. When designing a nursing plan for medical beauty treatment, the use of medical masks can be included in the selection of routine nursing plans as needed to improve treatment satisfaction.
