My husband got prp for an injury. He was given the leftover plasma that didn’t have a high enough concentration of platelets. It is refrigerated. He was told he could use it in his skin. Is it safe to use it on mine?
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PRP is typically isolated by taking whole blood and drawing it up into tubes filled with an anticoagulant. The actual blood testing tubes (blue vs yellow) designate what type of anticoagulant used to prevent the blood from clotting before the PRP can be isolated. Drawing blood into tubes without...
Thank you for your question. You are trying to understand how the inflammation that could be associated with microneedling can somehow aggravated by platelet-rich plasma (PRP). I can certainly see how you are using appropriate logic to define the skin condition such as rosacea, wrinkling, and...
