How Soon Can I Start Treating a Bad Chemical Peel?

How soon may I start to correct a a bad chemical peel? Another peel necessary? Microdermabrasion? I had a jessners followed by a 25% TCA within a week. 3 weeks later,my chin is all brown including brown spots on my face also. I need to know the quickest fix since I will be traveling in 6 weeks & will be exposed to the sun for a week. Over the counter since Retin-A & Tri-Luma is prescribed?

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Treating Chemical Peel Discoloration

As you are now aware there are risks of hyper-pigmentation with a skin resurfacing procedure. I hope by this time you have returned to the physician who administered your peels and they have prescribed a bleaching creme for you that you can apply to the problem areas such as your chin. If the bleaching creme is going to work, it will do so within 2-3 weeks. I advise patients to use it once in the morning and not to apply any other product for a minimum... more

start treating a bad chemical peel

Sorry for the issue of uneven blotching of the peel you received. I would use only local care as creams or lotion that heal and bleach. Do not do any more aggressive therapies like re peels. From MIAMI Dr. B

Chemical Peel Recovery

Another peel is not appropriate at this time, and further sun exposure will worsen or prolong the recovery. Avoid any microdermabrasion too. Uneven redness and healing is not uncommon after chemical peels. Different areas of the face and neck heal at varying rates, largely based on the thickness of the skin. Thicker skin of the nose or forehead may recovery much faster than the thin skin of the lower eyelids. In addition, different areas of the face & neck area have received... more

Microdermabrasions help even out color changes slowly.

If you do a few microdermabrasions, that should help even out the little color changes you have since you weren't available to see your derm doc for prescription creams. Also a couple of light jessner's peels would do the same thing.