Blisters – A Laser Hair Removal Side Effect

Laser hair removal blisters are far too common than most people think. Unfortunately the Med Spas and skin clinics sometime turn the focus away from skin blisters caused by hair removal lasers. when customers arrive to the hair removal clinic the danger and side effects should be properly explained to the client.

Too many men and women complain at hair removal forums and at legal advice forums that the laser hair removal side effects where not emphasized before the treatments. Though it is the clinic responsibility to clarify the side effects which can occur during a laser hair removal treatment, it is the clients responsibility to make sure they get the safest laser hair removal treatments possible.

How Laser Hair Removal Blisters Occur

The skin is a soft and partly transparent body tissue, when the laser hair removal process is done, intense heat is created. The heat is produced when the light energy is turned into heat energy when the light beam reacts with the darker Melanin cells at the hair and skin.

The heat is part of the laser hair removal treatment, and it is the heat which destroys the hair down the follicle and prevents the further growth of new hairs from the same root. A slight side effect is when the heat and hair destruction cause mild redness. This is a normal symptom of the laser hair removal proper effect.

When something goes wrong in the laser hair removal process skin blisters are created.

When the light reaches the hair then the regular hair removal process is completed, but when the light is too powerful and the laser energy is higher than needed, the heat will cause skin tissue around the hair follicle and hair shaft to get burned. The skin way for treating these burns is by producing blisters to cover and cool the burned areas.

The body covers the burned tissue with a pocket filled with fluid. The burned skin, and the pocket blister both can cause skin irritation and pain.

Laser Hair Removal Blisters And The Sun

Another possible cause for skin blisters after a laser hair removal session, is if the treated skin is exposed to the sun rays. The sun harmful rays can cause a treated skin to develop blisters! The skin surface which was treated has a very low natural protection. Laser can cause an excessive Melanin production (Hyper-pigmentation) or the destruction of Melanin production (Hypo-pigmentation).

In any case, people who undergo a laser hair removal must avoid the sun for at least a week! If your clinic does not forbid sun exposure for at least a week, than you should do it on your own! Sun rays on treated skin can cause blisters because the UVB rays ‘bake’ the skin while the natural protection is in trauma.

When Blisters Get Infected

The laser hair removal blisters are not dangerous. The skin blisters are not pleasant but they pose no risk nor do they become a permanent side effect. The main thing to worry is that these delicate fluid pockets might get infected and it is the infection which is dangerous and the blisters infection which might cause some kind of scarring.

For this reason you should avoid wearing tight cloth if you have blisters, avoid tight jeans and underwear, or tight T shirts. If the skin pocket of the blister is torn, the burned skin tissue might be infected and the infection can cause severe pain and mush slower recovery.

Preventing Laser Blisters

There are some ways to prevent the laser hair removal skin blisters. The best way is to make sure you are the right candidate for the laser hair removal machine and type of laser wavelength in which the doctor would be preforming the treatments with. There are numerous types of lasers and IPL machines, they have different wavelength for different types of skins.

Dark skins or light hair are more probable to cause laser side effects, because the laser light gets absorbed by the dark skin melanin and not only by the hairs melanin. Light and fair hair is ‘invisible’ to the laser treatment, so stronger types of beams might be used to treat the skin at deeper layers. If this is your skin or hair tone, make sure the laser treatment side effects are clearly explained for you.

Since blisters are caused by the heat, a cooling gel or cooling device if used can prevent the blisters. There are many ways to cool the skin during the laser session, ask your technician how it will be done on your skin.

Laser hair removal can be quite painful. If you see that the pain is beyond your capability to bare it, than it might be that the laser is too tough! Using anesthetics can numb the pain, but then the laser might be powerful and you will not feel it until it is too late..

Conclusion

You should know that blisters might occur after a laser hair removal treatment. You need to make sure you do all that is in your hands to get informed before the sessions about the risks and side effects expected for your specific skin and hair type, and for the specific type of laser which will be used on your skin.

To prevent laser hair removal blisters, stay a way from the sun for a week after the sessions, do not wear tight cloth if the blisters did develop, and keep the skin clean and dry. If you see blisters on skin, let your doctor know and see them too, and discuss with him what is the best way to complete the laser sessions.

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