What is Photo Therapy?
Photo therapy, or light therapy as it is sometimes called, consists of exposure to light at specific wavelengths using several means of light exposure including sunlight, bright full-spectrum lamps, light emitting diodes, lasers, fluorescent lamps, or diachronic lamps for a specified and prescribed amount of time or a specified and prescribed time of day, in the cases that require sunlight. Photo Therapy can be used to treat a very wide array of diseases such as Acne Vulgaris, or severe acne, seasonal affection disorder, or even neonatal jaundice. It can even be used to treat delayed sleep phase syndrome primarily because it has also proven to be an effective treatment for some forms of non-seasonal psychiatric disorders. With conditions such as Acne Vulgaris, photo therapy has been known to greatly improve skin conditions such as problems and infections of the oil glands on the skin. In the case of Acne based diseases, sunlight normally works the best for reducing symptoms. Artificial UV light was proven to have less effect due to the lack of certain sunlight-induced bacteria destruction due to natural UV rays. Photo Therapy or Light therapy in natural sunlight for about 3 consecutive days can destroy bacteria in the pores by 99.99% and reduce acne to almost nothing. For those using photo therapy for acne, in over 78% of cases, patients are improved, if not completely ridden free of acne-like conditions (for more on this, see www.centerforsmartskin.com.)
What are the benefits of Photo Therapy?
Many modern phototherapy lamps that are used in the treatments of seasonal psychological problems as well as physical problems are able to filter out or not even use ultraviolent rays in their treatments, thus making this problem irrelevant to most forms of photo therapy. In the cases where exposure to the sun is needed, another solution is made to monitor this. Exposure to the sun has exactly prescribed time periods when doctors issue this as a prescription. These time periods are gauged to minimize possible damage done to the skin as a result or UV rays or other damaging lights. Phototherapy is capable of reducing numerous numbers of advanced and basic skin conditions. It is becoming one of the best ways to treat skin conditions that may result in unsightly or unattractive scars or blemishes on the surface of the skin. Phototherapy erases these conditions as well as any signs of these conditions.
