How Does Phototherapy for Acne Really Work?
Intense pulsed light (IPL) therapy and lasers have garnered media attention as leading-edge acne treatments. Often times the effectiveness of phototherapy is credited to the destruction of a popular clear skin nemesis, the so-called acne causing bacteria Propionibacterium acnes (p. acnes). Yet ironically, closer examination of how phototherapy actually works paints p. acnes as a catalyst for improving acne plagued skin, not a pimple provoker. Immonouppression stops pending pimples In a process known as immunosuppression p. acnes could reduce the skin’s inflammatory response to a developing an acne lesion. Several factors like hormonal shifts, stress and nutrient deficiencies can lead to the surfacing of an acne lesion. One factor that aggravates a nascent acne lesion is the body’s immunological response to all of the agents that ultimately form a zit. One of the many cells involved in the body’s immunological response to imposing acne lesions are Langerhans cells. Langerhans cells resp
