What is Intense Pulsed Light therapy?
IPL is a treatment when optometrists use flashes around the eye to treat complications like dry eyes. These eye illnesses arise when the eye ting glands get blocked, leading to dryness, itching and burning of the eyes. This treatment is a painless procedure and takes around 10- 15 minutes, providing relief for ten to twelve months.
What causes dry eyes?
There are many aspects that lead to dry eyes, including ageing, hormonal imbalance, wearing contact lenses for long, and staring too much at computers or mobile phones. Not only this, some medical complications like diabetes or thyroid also give rise to dry eyes, contributing to the need for IPL therapy. Dry eyes should not be considered a small issue and should be treated at an early stage to avoid bigger problems such as vision loss, major eye infections or damage to the surface of an eye.
What should you expect when getting IPL therapy done?
Planning and testing
Optometrists perform eye tests and check the condition of meibomian glands. This step ensures you get the treatment tailored to your needs. While testing and planning for the treatment, they also ensure that they check the medical history to make certain everything is taken care of. They also recommend avoiding things like strong medications or sun exposure during the treatment.
Painless procedure
Since the whole treatment is painless, the doctors make certain to numb the eyes so that the patient does not feel discomfort and pain during the process. They start by using the protective shield around the eyes and then putting numbing gel or drops before moving further with the process.
Cooling gel
The next step includes an application of cooling gel under the eye, making sure that the heat of the light pulse doesn’t affect your skin and keeps the skin healthy and comfortable when undergoing treatment. Once the treatment is done, the cooling gel is removed gently, ensuring there is no gel left behind so that the doctor can assess the treated area effectively.
Use of IPL device
The doctors send the short and controlled bursts of light by placing the device under the skin of the eyes, making tiny flashes that go into meibomian glands for an effective treatment. You can find many optometrists who provide the best treatment for eye illnesses by testing and using the device carefully.
How to take care of your eyes after the treatment?
Clean eyes
It’s essential to keep the eyes clean and maintained. You might have to avoid applying moisturizers and other products on the face, including those in the treated area. When the eyes are not maintained properly, it can cause redness in the eyes.
Avoiding sun exposure
What happens to some of the customers is their skin gets more sensitive after the treatments, so it’s highly beneficial for all to avoid sun exposure for at least three days for an effective and durable result.
Avoid touching eyes
This is always recommended after every eye treatment so that the chance of developing any infection is prevented. Plus, the skin and eyes are healing at this stage, and rubbing or touching them causes irritation or redness, preventing them from having successful outcomes.
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