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Sunbeds For Psoriasis: Harnessing the Power of UVB
Psoriasis is a chronic skin condition that affects millions of people worldwide, causing discomfort, pain, and self-esteem challenges. While there is no cure for psoriasis, various treatments aim to manage its symptoms effectively. One promising therapy that...
10 Foods to Avoid With Psoriasis: An Exhaustive Guide to Nourishing Your Skin
Hello, warriors of well-being! Feeling bogged down by psoriasis and its pesky symptoms? You're certainly not alone. This common skin condition affects millions across the globe, causing red, itchy patches that can dampen even the brightest of spirits. While medical...
UVB Light Therapy at Home for Vitiligo: The Ultimate Guide to Reclaiming Your Skin
Welcome to the world where science meets skin care! If you or someone you know is battling the frustrating condition called vitiligo, you're not alone. From Hollywood celebrities to the kid next door, millions are trying to navigate life with skin that's literally...
Can Sunbeds Be Good For You?
In the pursuit of achieving a healthy glow or managing certain skin conditions, many individuals consider options like sunbeds and UVB Light Therapy machines. While both involve exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light, their purposes and effects on health vary...
How Does UVB Therapy Work?
Ultraviolet B (UVB) phototherapy delivers shortwave ultraviolet radiation to treat skin conditions such as psoriasis. Phototherapy works by suppressing DNA synthesis, which in turn reduces inflammation. Narrowband UVB phototherapy (311–312 nm) is increasingly used...
Unlocking the Power of UVB Lamps for Psoriasis
Living with psoriasis can be challenging. The persistent, itchy, and sometimes painful skin plaques can take a toll on your self-esteem and overall well-being. If you've been seeking relief from this chronic skin condition, you're not alone. Fortunately, there's a...
How To Help Skin Health and Acne Treatment
Acne, a common skin condition that affects individuals of various ages, can be a persistent and frustrating challenge to tackle. While numerous treatments exist, UVB light therapy has emerged as a promising solution that offers significant benefits in...
What is the Best Treatment for Psoriasis
Psoriasis is a chronic autoimmune skin condition that affects millions of people worldwide, causing red, inflamed patches covered with silvery scales. This complex disorder can be physically uncomfortable and emotionally distressing, leading many individuals to...
Psoriasis Action Month – August 2023
August is Psoriasis Awareness Month. Being one of the most uncommon illnesses, psoriasis affects over 20,000 individuals every single year. here in the UK, adding to 125 million sufferers worldwide. The month is used as an opportunity to educate and inform...
Are UVB Machines Effective for Clearing Up Skin Conditions?
Debunking Myths and Exploring Benefits... Skin conditions can be a source of discomfort and self-consciousness for many individuals. From psoriasis and eczema to vitiligo and certain types of dermatitis, these conditions can significantly impact one's...
Top 5 Benefits Of UVB Psoriasis Lamps
Living with psoriasis can be a challenging experience, as this persistent skin condition can lead to discomfort and self-consciousness. While there is no definitive cure for psoriasis, modern technology has brought us UVB psoriasis lamps, which offer...
The Path to Healthy Skin: UVB Light Therapy
Living with skin conditions can be challenging, impacting both physical comfort and emotional well-being. Fortunately, advancements in medical technology have opened doors to various treatment options, including UVB light therapy. In this blog, we will delve...
UVB Light Therapy For Vitiligo at Home – A Guide For Beginners
If you suffer from vitiligo, the white patches of skin that can appear anywhere on your body, it may feel like there is no solution. But don’t despair! You may be relieved to know that UVB light therapy for vitiligo at home is now possible! This revolutionary...
The Benefits of Skin Care
Our skin, the largest organ of our body, plays a vital role in protecting us from external elements and maintaining our overall well-being. Yet, in the hustle and bustle of daily life, we often overlook the importance of proper skin care. In this blog post,...
The Healing Power of Narrowband UVB Lights for Skin Conditions
In recent years, narrowband UVB (Ultraviolet B) phototherapy has emerged as a remarkable treatment for various skin conditions. Harnessing the therapeutic potential of controlled UVB light wavelengths, this innovative technology offers relief to individuals...
The Power Of UVB Light Therapy: Transform Your Skin Condition
If you've been struggling with skin conditions such as psoriasis, eczema, or vitiligo, you understand the physical and emotional toll they can take on your day-to-day life. Constant itching, discomfort, and self-consciousness can significantly impact your...
The Importance of Vitamin D For Healthy Skin
Did you know that your skin is the primary organ supplying vitamin D to your body? It is therefore no wonder that vitamin D plays a crucial role in the development and maintenance of your skin. Over millions of years of exposure to sun via evolution, the...
Phototherapy Lamps: The Best Way Of Treating Psoriasis From Home
Psoriasis phototherapy is the most proven method to help aid damaged skin, with many doctors worldwide recommending this UVB light therapy because of the outstanding results they produce. “NB-UVB light therapy is most effective when performed two or three...
Light Therapy At Home: Key Benefits Of Hiring A Machine
When it comes to treating your skin, many people still feel embarrassed when visiting the doctor or having weekly sessions booked in with a specialist. Light therapy at home is the answer. The skin is what appears on the outside of the body, so when we don’t...
Do Sunbeds Help Psoriasis?
We understand the pain that psoriasis sufferers can endure when outbreaks occur and spread all over the body. Some forms of psoriasis can be minor, only needing creams and skin-applying remedies, but more severe and chronic conditions may need more scientifically...
Psoriasis Light Therapy – Treatment for Psoriasis
Psoriasis is a skin condition that causes flaky patches of skin which form scales. Within the UK, psoriasis effects 2-3 people for every 100. It can start at any age, but most often develops in adults between 20 and 30 years old and between 50 and 60. No matter...
What are the Main Symptoms of Eczema, and how does UVB Help?
Atopic dermatitis, more commonly known as eczema, is a highly irritating skin condition. One that causes skin to become dry, itchy and in many cases, cracked and sore. While it can occur all over the body, eczema is most common on the hands, insides of elbows and...
How to use UVB Light Therapy Safely
If you suffer from a skin condition such as Psoriasis, Vitiligo, Pityriasis Rosea or Atopic Eczema, then you may have already heard of UVB Light Therapy. UVB Light Therapy in simple terms is irradiation with shortwave ultraviolet radiation. The effect of UVB is...
Do Sunbeds Clear Your Skin?
One of the most common assumptions made within the skin care industry is the stereotype surrounding sunbeds and the effects they have on our skin. Yes, of course they can provide us with some quick colour, but does it actively improve and clear your skin? Do...
Acne: How Can Phototherapy Help?
Acne is a skin condition that can occur when hair follicles unfortunately become plugged up with dead skin cells and oil. It causes pimples, blackheads, or whiteheads. Acne is typically most common among the population of teenagers, although it can affect people of...
Vitiligo: Understanding the Symptoms and Causes
Vitiligo is a skin condition that can cause your skin to lose its colour. Smoother white areas (called patches if they are 5mm or larger and macules if they are less than 5mm) will appear on someone’s skin. If someone has vitiligo on a place that is populated by...
What is Eczema and How Can Phototherapy Help?
Eczema, treated with phototherapy, is an inflammatory condition of the skin that causes dryness, scaly patches, itchiness, skin infections and blisters. Itchy skin is the most common symptom associated with eczema. It can begin during a person’s childhood,...
Sunbeds won’t help your skin! Here’s why…
We at Skin Matters Bristol understand the importance of image. Especially in a social media dominated society, particularly for younger audiences, appearance is the main focus for many of us. If we don’t look up to scratch on the surface, we feel the same inside....
Philips Phototherapy
Light therapy or Philips phototherapy, involves exposing the skin to ultraviolet light on a regular basis and under medical supervision. Narrowband UVB phototherapy has become the treatment of choice for psoriasis, vitiligo, atopic dermatitis (eczema) and other...
Philips Narrowband Lamps
Philips Narrowband Lamps, Information re Philips Lamps. After 1000 hours of use the performance of the Lamps decline by only 15% and after 2000 hours the decline is 20%. They do not need to be replaced as the treatment time is very short, the life span of the Lamps...
Philips UVB Narrowband Lamps
Philips UVB Narrowband lamps are most effective on skin More than 400 independent clinical studies around the world* have shown that Philips UVB Narrowband (TL/01) Phototherapy lamps are the most effective lamps currently available for the treatment of Psoriasis...
What is UVB NarrowBand or UVB311
Narrowband Ultra Violet B Light is a relatively new technology on the vitiligo front. In the past, most doctors have used the PUVA system, which involved the use of Ultra Violet A light exposure and the taking of Psoralen pills. However, side effects for many...
How does UVB light therapy treat your condition?
Our services we offer here at Skin Matters Bristol cover a wide variety of skin conditions that are common across the general public of the UK. Our narrow band light therapy, also known as phototherapy, is the recommended, highly effective treatment that is slowly...
A Plan To Effectively Treat Psoriasis
About 300 000 Swedes suffer from the difficulty to treat disease, which manifests itself in scaly and often itchy patches on the skin. The reason is that cells divide without restraint as new blood vessels form in the deeper layers of the skin. An important...
Psoriasis in Spring and Summer
7 Answers to Frequently Asked Questions If you're among the vast majority of psoriasis sufferers, you've probably found that your psoriasis symptoms improve in the spring and summer. Doctors believe the improvement comes from increased exposure of your skin to the...
Vitiligo
Vitiligo is a chronic disorder that causes depigmentation in patches of skin. It occurs when the melanocytes, the cells responsible for skin pigmentation which are derived from the neural crest, die or are unable to function. The precise pathogenesis, or cause, of...
Phototherapy
UV light therapy (phototherapy) has been found to be effective for the treatment of skin conditions that are caused by overactive immune cells in the skin, as it reduces their activity. It has become a mainstay for the treatment of psoriasis and other...
