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My web research is showing that Low Level Laser Therapy is currently
in use. It's "a form of phototherapy which involves the application
of low power monochramatic and coherent light to injuries and lesions
to stimulate healing.
LLLT is used to increase the speed, quality and tensile strength of
tissue repair, resolve inflammation, and give pain relief. The
technical term often used to describe this form of therapy is
'photobiostimulation'."
You can read more about it here:
Spectra-medics
http://www.spectra-medics.com/intro.html
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find anything specific to eyelid
inflammation; this is not to say treatments don't exist.
Here is some additional, related research:
http://www.laser.nu/lllt/lllt_science7.htm#Effectsof
Effects of low-intensity infrared impulse laser therapy on
inflammation activity markers in patients with rheumatoid arthritis...
The findings give pathogenetical grounds for IRILT use in RA as this
treatment suppresses functional activity of macrophages, which serve
the main source of neopterin and the receptors synthesis.
Laser Radiation Influence on Viruses
http://www.tech-db.ru/istc/db/projects.nsf/prjn/G-445
Purposes of the investigation are explain the physico-chemical
mechanisms of infection of bacterial viruses and the effects of laser
beam radiation on the process of infection of healthy cells by virus
particles. The final purposes are develop the technology and methods
for cultivation of bacteriophages as a new vectors for biothechnology
and new direction in the biomedicine-phagotherapie
Xanthelasma
http://www.aafp.org/afp/980600ap/carter.html
Xanthelasma are soft, yellowish plaques in the medial canthal area
(Figure 9). Hypercholesterolemia or congenital disorders of
cholesterol metabolism may be associated conditions.3 Xanthelasma may
be treated with excision or with a carbon dioxide laser if desired for
cosmetic reasons.
Argon laser therapy of benign tumors of the eyelid.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=98287236
"Forty-one patients with 47 benign tumors of the eyelid were included
in this study. In all patients, the eyelid tumor was eliminated by
argon laser."
Photodynamic laser therapy of basal-cell carcinoma of the lid.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=94034738
This paper presents the results of PDT to eyelid basal-cell carcinomas
in 21 patients. All lesions primarily responded to the treatment and
became necrotic. A generalized photosensitization lasting for more
than 4 weeks was seen in all patients.
Chat Highlights Laser Therapy for Glaucoma
http://www.wills-glaucoma.org/supportgroup/chat02092000.html
Rick Wilson: If a patient has pigmentary glaucoma, then I treat them
under age 50. If they have open-angle glaucoma or pseudoexfoliation
glaucoma with good pigment to absorb the laser energy, then 50 years
and up. The laser works best to lower IOP in patients over 60; the
older the better.
Search strategy:
eyelid anti-inflammatory laser
LLLT eyelid
low-level laser eyelid
eyelid "laser treatment"
eyelid "laser therapy" |
