- If you take anticoagulation medications, including heavy use of
aspirin, in a manner which does not allow for a minimum 1-week
washout period prior to each treatment.
Never use the device:
- If you have received radiation therapy or chemotherapy within the
past 3 months.
- If you are on painkillers which reduce the skin's sensitivity to heat.
- If you take immunosuppressive medications.
- If you have had surgery in the areas to be treated in the last 3
weeks.
Pathologies/Disorders
Never use the device:
- If you have diabetes or other systemic or metabolic diseases.
- If you have congestive heart disease.
- If you have a disease related to photosensitivity, such as
polymorphic light eruption (PMLE), solar urticaria, porphyria etc.
- If you have a history of collagen disorder, including a history of
keloid scar formation or a history of poor wound healing.
- If you have epilepsy with flashlight sensitivity.
- If your skin is sensitive to light and easily develops a rash or an
allergic reaction.
- If you have a skin disease such as active skin cancer, you have a
history of skin cancer or any other localized cancer in the areas to
be treated.
- If you have a history of vascular disorder, such as the presence of
varicose veins or vascular ectasia in the areas to be treated.
- If you have any bleeding disorder.
- If you have a history of immunosuppressive disease (including HIV
infection or AIDS).
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