Cryotherapy - what is it?
Cryotherapy is a preventive or curative effect of low temperatures (liquid nitrogen), which gives excellent results. Facial cryotherapy is carried out by qualified specialists and helps to eliminate pathological formations and unwanted cosmetic defects on the face, and also has a lifting effect, leads the skin into tone and improves nourishment and blood supply to the skin. This procedure will relieve seborrhea or acne in just a quarter of an hour. Moreover, cryotherapy eliminates various inflammations, normalizes the activity of the sebaceous glands, improves microcirculation of blood in tissues, has a lymphatic drainage effect, normalizes the metabolic processes - in general, promotes the healing of the skin as a whole.
Cryotherapy local and general
By the nature of its impact on the face, cryotherapy is divided into local and general.
With the use of general cryotherapy, the effect of low temperatures is carried out on the entire surface of the patient's skin, with the exception of the neck and head. In this case, the patient is in the cryobasin or cryosauna.
With local cryotherapy, exposure to cold occurs only in certain areas of the skin, for example, the face. In this case, the cryotherapy procedure of the face acts as a cryomassage. With such a massage, the anti-inflammatory effect of low temperatures with an anesthetic is combined.
For facial cryotherapy procedures, liquid nitrogen is mainly used, which is a liquid that does not have odor and color, and boiling point down to -195, 8 degrees. Liquid nitrogen, depending on the technique and method of its application, can have different actions. In the case of removal of unwanted growths and formations on the face, liquid nitrogen rejects and destroys abnormal tissues. With a mild nature of the effect of nitrogen, the process of rapid constriction and expansion of the blood vessels occurs, thereby increasing the flow of blood to the site of action on the skin.
Cryoelectrophoresis - another no less effective procedure for face cryotherapy. When it is carried out with the help of an electric current under the skin, drugs are introduced frozen.
Indications for cryotherapy
Cryotherapy of the face in such cases as the presence of scars and scars, loss of skin elasticity, the appearance of edema and wrinkles, insufficient blood circulation of the facial skin, high activity on the face of the face of the sebaceous glands, acne or acne, the presence of papillomas and warts on the face, rosacea and expanded pores.
Contraindications
For face care cryotherapy is allowed to all people, regardless of gender and age, but with the following contraindications. These include acute infectious diseases, some gynecological diseases, couperose and epilepsy, cardiovascular diseases, fever, arterial disorders and migraine.
How Cryotherapy is Carried - Facial Skin Care
Cryomassage of the face with the use of liquid nitrogen is carried out with the help of a special applicator. Such an applicator is a wooden thirty-centimeter stick. One of its ends is fastened with a cotton swab, the size is slightly larger than the element removed from the skin of the face. If it is necessary to treat a larger area of the skin, such an applicator is used as a tube-reservoir for nitrogen in liquid form with special replaceable nozzles of various shapes.
Immediately before the procedure of cryotherapy, carefully clean and treat with alcohol solution that area of the skin, which will be affected by liquid nitrogen.
In cases where it is necessary to remove all kinds of scars, warts and acne, they are deep frozen at the site of their location using an applicator held for a required time over the removed formation under low pressure. After about a minute after this procedure, a sharp inflow of blood occurs at the sites of application of liquid nitrogen, resulting in the formation of edema, which is converted into a dense crust within a few hours. After a few days, this crust will fall off by itself, leaving only a slightly pink little dot.
In cases where a shallow effect of nitrogen on the skin is needed, the procedure time is only about fifteen seconds. Shallow effect of liquid nitrogen removes rosacea, papillomas and produces a massage to eliminate certain causes of hair loss. In this procedure, the applicator is lowered into a container with liquid nitrogen, and then they are applied to problem areas of the skin, carrying out necessarily on massage lines. When exposed to liquid nitrogen, there is a sharp spasm of the vessels and immediately their strong expansion. Thanks to this, the exchange processes are stimulated and the blood supply of the surface layers of the skin improves. As a result of this procedure, the facial skin quickly gets the necessary amino acids, vitamins, microelements, oxygen.
Cryomassage can be carried out not only with the help of liquid nitrogen. For such a procedure, ice can be used, which will be prepared from extracts of various useful oils, mineral water or medicinal plants. Such cryomassage will be very effective in preventing premature aging of the skin, the appearance of pigment spots and unwanted early wrinkles. Such facial treatment should be carried out in several stages: the initial exposure to ice should not be more than five minutes, after which the impact should increase to fifteen minutes.
Cryolectrophoresis of the face is a modern cosmetology procedure, which consists in the fact that frozen medications are introduced into the deep layers of the skin by means of a pulsating electric current. The procedure for cryoelectrophoresis of the facial skin usually lasts no more than twenty minutes. This time is enough for the drugs to penetrate the skin. Carrying out this procedure does not cause any psychological discomfort or painful sensations.
In principle, any method of cryotherapy, conducted by specialists, is completely safe and painless, and also does not leave scars and has no side effects.