What is a Blue Light treatment, enhanced with ALA? How does it work?
When ALA enters the skin, it becomes metabolized. The skin cells turn it into a photosensitizer called a porphyrin. The sebaceous glands are the most active part of the skin for creating porphyrins and the sebaceous glands are the root cause of acne. Up until now, the only proven therapy for to makedly impact the sebaceous glands was Accutane or isotretinoin. Accutane has however, numerous and fairly toxic systemic side effects. ALA is a very effective and viable treatment alternative. Blu-U stimulates the ALA to reduce the size and activity of the sebaceous oil gland and increses the protoporphyrin destruction of the bacteria. ALA-PDT also causes collagen rejuvenation which decreases pore size! We have found that Blu-U light treatments alone are effective for treating mild to moderate acne but it’s proving much more effective on moderate to severe acne or cystic acne when enhanced in combination with Levulan ALA. .
