Austin Vein Treatment doctors

While there are multiple causes of broken blood vessels in the skin, sun damage and excessive UV exposure is one of the major culprits. Poikiloderma is a specific type of sun damage where the skin in chronically sun exposed areas (particularly the sides of the neck and upper chest of women) changes color and the blood vessels under the skin become dilated.

Covering the area with a high SPF sunscreen on a daily basis can help prevent this condition from worsening and can help reverse the skin changes in some individuals. Lasers that specifically target the discoloration and red color of the blood vessels, such as Pulse Dye and Intense Pulse Light, can resolve this completely. More than one treatment is often required with both of these devices.

Blusters and scabbing after transdermal vein treatment may occur. Skin cooling at time of procedure helps to decease this unfortunate maleffect. After occurrence, avoid any sun exposure. Use Vasoline based family of products such as Aquaphor or Biafine. Biafine with emollients is the most expensive and may work better.

It is important to be appropriately classified so both the patient and the physician know what to expect.  I would suggest that you go back to your physician or vascular surgeon and review what is causing these small veins to appear.  The most common problem is the presence of "the feeder vein."  Small nose and face veins are what doctors call telangiectasias (the doctor word for small veins).  They are often "fed" by other veins that might not be under the surface.  Surgeons must always go for the feeder vein first.  There are three signs of a feeder vein.  The decompression test (rapid refill when one presses on it).  Another is visualization (seeing it).  This is aided (helped) with transillumination (a bright light and now the VeinViewer).  The last test to suggest a feeder vein is treatment failure which you are now experiencing. 

Cryo Laser and Cryo Sclerotherpy (CLaCS) is a specific method and technique designed and taught by Clinica Miyake to deal not only with leg veins but also veins elsewhere on th body including the face.  There is a specific classification scale (9 to 1) used to help clinicians and patients not only manage expectations but to guide treatment for lower extremity veins (veins on the legs).  For the face no such scale exists although the principle three tests mentioned above still apply. 

There are many accepted methods of dealing with facial telangiectasias and they range from using intense pulsed light (IPL) laser, radiofrequency and chemical ablation (sclerotherapy). 

It is important to realize that telangiectasias are classified as Clinical Class 1 of chronic venous disease.  Chronic Venous Disease is just that, a chronic condition.  If you do have some "feeder veins" that are causing the problem to recur even with CLaCS a series of staged treatments generally about two weeks apart are recommended.  In order to get rid of the veins in "one shot" more aggressive treatments are necessary which also increases the risk of adverse (bad) effects to the patient.