Derma Rollers Side Effects And How To Avoid Them

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Derma roller is an amazing tool for regenerating your skin. This is extremely helpful for removing acne scars, reducing deep wrinkles and fine lines, removing stretch marks, reducing Crow's feet, boosting collagen production, reducing hyper pigmentation marks, anti-aging, etc. The effectiveness of this tool is based on tiny injuries it causes in your skin. These injuries help to trigger skin renewal process. If the needles can do deeper, they can activate your skin extremely effective. In such a way, it regenerates internal skin. So, if the derma roller needles are longer, there will be visible irritation on treated skin area. In order to get maximum benefits, you must use this tool correctly. You must also use high quality dermarollers to get the best results. Here is an evaluation of derma rollers side effects and ways to avoid them.

Derma Rollers Side Effects

It is always advisable to look into possible side effects of a treatment or therapy before using it. However, Derma Roller side effects can be avoided completely if you use it properly. This Micro Needling Roller is a revolutionary product, which can improve the appearance of lots of different skin problems and blemishes including acne scars, stretch marks and cellulite. Skin needling is extremely effective to encourage skin regeneration. This is also a safer option than expensive laser treatments and surgeries.

Skin Redness

Skin redness is a very common side effect of micro needling. If it is observed from a distance, the effect looks like sunburn. This is quite normal after skin needling treatment. Usually, your skin tone will reach to the normal condition within few hours. However, the length of needles is around 1.0 or 1.5mm, the redness may continue till the next day. If you are not satisfied with the temporary redness, you can plan the treatment accordingly. So, your skin will get enough time to recover from redness before going back in public. If you use Derma Roller on Friday evening, your skin will glow naturally by Monday morning without any traces of needling treatment side effects.

If you have a very busy lifestyle and facing difficulties to fix time for treatment, you can cover the redness with a tinted moisturizer or some mineral make-up and return to normal activities immediately.

Skin Tightness/Soreness

Derma Roller makes tiny injuries in your skin, which triggers natural regeneration and skin renewal process. The needles should go deeper to make internal regeneration more actively. However, this may lead to some side effects such as skin tightness or soreness in treated areas. If the needling is longer, irritation will be more noticeable. To minimize tightness and soreness, you can use a serum with Derma Roller. After treatment, you should moisturize regularly and properly to avoid these side effects.


Infection

Infection is the most serious side effect of microneedling. So, you should clean and disinfect dermaroller soon after the use. It is essential for avoiding the growth of bacteria. If you disinfect dermaroller after use, you can reduce skin infection. Dark skinned people can encounter temporary hyper pigmentation. Usually, it is due to premature exposure to sun after dermarolling.

Some possible post-microrolling side effects are not really bad side effects. Instead, they are relatively common and a part of natural skin response. These side effects vary depending on genetic factors and side effects. Appearance of red spots, irritation and redness are some of such examples.

Rosacea

This is another adverse side effect of derma rolling. This is a type of skin inflammation and dermarolling can worsen this problem.

Some derma rolling side effects are not strictly the result of micro needling. But, it can be the outcome of careless application of certain products after dermarolling. Micro needling has immense benefits and it can enhance the penetration of skin products into your skin. Thus, if the products have any potential side effects, micro needling can increase them. Therefore, you must be careful while using products such as Minoxidil, acidic products, Hydroquinone, etc. You should start micro needling slowly. More or higher percentage should be applied only if there are no problems.


Derma Roller Safety Advice

You must have correct skin condition to use Derma Rolling without the risk of side effects. If you are not sure about the effects of this therapy, you should test a small area of skin. The side effects of Micro Needling Roller can be very serious if you have some existing skin condition, illnesses or skin damage. Therefore, this therapy must be avoided, if you have:

* Eczema
* Skin malignancies
* Poor healing
* Blood clotting problems
* Chronic skin disorders
* Active skin injections
* Rosacea
* Herpes outbreak
* Raised warts or moles
* Severe solar keratosis
* Psoriasis
* Areas of open cuts, sunburn or other tender areas

You should not use derma rolling on your upper eyelids and right below your lower eyelashes. It may lead to potential eyeball injury. If your skin is thin, single needling can lead to bruising. Thickness of skin depends on gender, skin location, genetics and age. So, you should adjust the needle length and depth of penetration accordingly. Micro needling can collapse the walls of ice-pick scars and can make them shallower and wider. So, you should keep needling.

Dry and rough skin is a very common but this is harmless side effect of Micro needling. However, it will last only for a few days after dermarolling. If you use longer needles, dryness and roughness will be severe. Though slightly uncomfortable, it will become perfectly normal.

Some people complaint about long lasting sensitivity to creams and light, but its connection to derma rolling is not clear. Moreover, this problem appears just one in many thousands of derma rolling customers. So, it cannot be classified as the known side effects of derma rolling.

Rashes, skin irritation, skin peeling, general over-sensitivity, skin sensitivity are the other rare side effects of derma rolling. However, these are not proved as the side effects of Derma Rolling.

Before purchasing a derma roller for home use, needle size should be decided very carefully. You should also give topmost importance to the quality of derma roller, especially its needles. To get a better result, you must select good material needles such as titanium. Usually, the needles are made by using titanium or surgical steel. A pure natural oil or an effective organic moisturizer can be used to avoid dryness. You should use some common sense while using derma roller. Correct procedures and practices should be followed strictly. Derma roller side effects are quite negligible. But, the benefits can be enormous. Therefore, start using derma rolling if you want to give a new lease of life to your skin.

Jess Varkey

Some say he’s half man half fish, others say he’s more of a seventy/thirty split. Either way he’s a fishy bastard.

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