Electrolysis for Red Vein Removal
Fine, red capillaries and spider veins on the face and decolletage can be simply and easily removed. Very few treatments are needed for excellent results.
These dilated capillaries, often found on the cheeks and nose, are caused by the loss of elasticity in the capillary walls. There are various causes, although most often they are due to an inherited factor or from sun damage.
There are three main types of Red veins or hemangiomas:
- spider angiomas (nevus araneus), commonly known as spider veins,
- linear telangiectasis [ commonly found on the cheeks, chin and around the nose]
- cherry angiomas (senile angiomas or Campbell de Morgan spots).
Spider angiomas
Spider angiomas are found around the eyes, nose, cheekbones, arms, and legs. They are red marks formed from dilated blood vessels.
There are various causes, although most often they are due to an inherited factor or from sun damage. They occur during pregnancy in 70% of white women and 10% of black women, in alcoholics and liver disease patients, and in 50% of children.
Spider angiomas are painless, reddish blue marks formed from blood-filled capillaries, around a small artery, in the shape of a spider web.
The walls of the veins which carry blood from the feet and hands back to the heart, sometimes weaken with age. If the veins' walls and valves are weak, the blood may tend to balloon out against the skin.
Linear telangiectasia
These common unsightly vessels are dilated or distended sections of the fine capillary network lying in the upper dermis situated just under the epidermis. They are often hereditory or due to excessive sun damage or long term sun exposure. They are found mostly on pale, northern european [anglo-saxon] skin types.
Cherry angiomas
Cherry angiomas are dilated capillaries found mainly on the trunk, they appear in the 30s and multiply with aging.
Capillary Treatment (Diathermy)
A series of pinpricks with an electrolysis needle along the length of the damaged capillary is made, causing little dams or blockages along the vessel. This stops blood from flowing into the area. Once the section of the blood vessel is not receiving blood, it will collapse, tissue will be re absorbed, and that area will not be apparent as a red capillary any more. Sometimes a single treatment will fix the problem, sometimes a short course is needed.
This treatment is ideal when there are a few specific red vessels on cheeks, nose or chin. If there is extensive condition, or if the problem is not specific vessels but a more diffuse, general redness, then pulsed light is probably a better way to go. Your therapist will advise as to which treatment will be most efficient.
You will be advised at the consultation what to expect. This is a very simple little procedure, but it has dramatic results. Treatments are short, usually 15 minutes or less. A little reddening of the skin is apparent, but that dies down very quickly. On rare occasions, there may be a few pin dot sized scabs appear a day or so later. These quickly fade.
Prior to any hair removal, or capillary treatment, a consultation takes place. Medical and personal history is noted, and treatment procedure is clearly explained. A doctor's letter may be required in some circumstances. Treatments vary from short 15-minute sessions to 2/3 hours at a time, depending on size and nature of the area needing work.
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