Dangsan Station Dermatology Clinic: Anti-Inflammatory Injections—When Is This Treatment Needed?

Dangsan Station Dermatology Clinic: Anti-Inflammatory Injections,

When Is This Treatment Needed?

(Department of Care: Dermatology)

"My acne has gotten so large...

If I get an anti-inflammatory injection,

will it go down right away?"

Inflammatory acne that becomes red, swollen, and painful can cause significant discomfort in everyday life.

In situations like this, many people think of anti-inflammatory injections first.

When used at the right time, anti-inflammatory injections can be very helpful in calming a lesion,

but using them indiscriminately can instead cause nothing but irritation to the skin.

From now on, we will explain in detail how anti-inflammatory injections work, their effects, and the situations in which this procedure may be needed.

Table of Contents

• 1. How Anti-Inflammatory Injections Work and Their Effects
• 2. When Is This Treatment Needed?
• 3. What Comes After the Inflammation Has Calmed?

Dangsan Station Dermatology Clinic: Anti-Inflammatory Injections (Department of Care: Dermatology)

How Anti-Inflammatory Injections Work and Their Effects

How Anti-Inflammatory Injections Work at a Dangsan Station Dermatology Clinic

An anti-inflammatory injection is a treatment that directly injects medication into a lesion to quickly suppress the inflammatory response.

For example, in the case of inflammatory acne that is red, swollen, and firm to the touch, an inflammatory response is actively taking place inside the skin.

When medication that may help in this situation is injected directly into the lesion,

the excessive inflammatory response may be suppressed, helping reduce swelling and pain and allowing the lesion to calm down relatively quickly. ​

This treatment is particularly often used when large, deep inflammation is present, such as with nodular or cystic acne,

and when used at an appropriate time, it may also be very helpful in reducing the possibility that prolonged inflammation will lead to indented scars.

However, because anti-inflammatory injections are a treatment for controlling inflammation that has already developed, please note that they do not treat sebum production or the underlying cause of acne itself.

Dangsan Station Dermatology Clinic: Anti-Inflammatory Injections (Department of Care: Dermatology)

When Is This Treatment Needed?

• When inflammation needs to be relieved quickly before an important event, or

• When acne is painful even when touched, or is red and significantly swollen

• This procedure may be helpful for nodular acne that feels firm deep inside the skin.

However, when there is little inflammation, such as with comedonal acne that looks like tiny bumps, other treatments such as extraction may be more appropriate.

Also, if large areas of inflammation repeatedly develop in the same location, anti-inflammatory injections alone may have limitations in resolving the issue.

In such cases, you should consider an approach that also addresses excessive sebaceous gland activity and the underlying conditions that cause acne to recur.

Using anti-inflammatory injections indiscriminately without distinguishing between lesions may instead cause irritation to accumulate in the skin.

Therefore, please carefully decide whether to undergo this treatment only after a thorough consultation with an experienced medical professional.

Dangsan Station Dermatology Clinic: Anti-Inflammatory Injections (Department of Care: Dermatology)

What Comes After the Inflammation Has Calmed?

Once the inflammation has sufficiently settled, it may be helpful to also consider treatment aimed at reducing recurrence.

We would like to introduce two treatment approaches that may be helpful.

1. NeoBeam

NeoBeam acne treatment device at U&I in Yeongdeungpo and Dangsan Station

This device uses a 1450 nm wavelength laser to selectively deliver thermal energy to the sebaceous glands beneath the skin.

It may help regulate the function of excessively active sebaceous glands, reduce sebum production, and improve the conditions in which inflammation repeatedly develops.

2. Agnes

Agnes acne treatment device

This treatment involves inserting an extremely thin insulated needle into the area of the sebaceous gland and directly delivering radiofrequency energy.

Its distinctive feature is that it can target the sebaceous glands, which are a cause of acne, relatively selectively and precisely.

For this reason, it is often used to treat acne that repeatedly develops in the same area or deep inflammatory acne.

In conclusion, anti-inflammatory injections at a Dangsan Station dermatology clinic may help quickly relieve active inflammation,

but using them too indiscriminately can irritate the skin, and they may have limitations in improving the conditions that cause acne to develop in the first place.

Therefore, it is best to use them appropriately and only when truly necessary after consulting with an experienced medical professional.

Please also keep in mind that other treatments may need to be used alongside them to reduce acne recurrence and improve the skin environment.

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