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I discourage patients to do anything when they are pregnant or breast feeding. Period. There will never be any tests done on women whom are pregnant or breastfeeding so legally and ethically it is not wise to treat a women in such a situation. My suggestion, wait until you are done with your commitment and then get your treatments. Hope this helps. Dr. Grant Stevens
IPL and Laser Hair Reduction are not recommended for pregnant or breast feeding women. There is no known physiological adverse effects to either treatment, however since IPL and Laser Hair Reduction are both elective, non life saving procedures, usual recommendation is to wait till after breast feeding to have either procedure done.
Frankly, that's up to you, your physician, and the office performing the IPL and laser hair removal. There aren't many laser companies that tell you not to perform these treatments on breastfeeding women, but some offices don't like to do it just as a general safety precaution for you and your baby's health. But my office has done plenty of procedures safely on women who are breastfeeding.
Because darker and ethnic skin types have a propensity for pigment issues, preparation with pigment suppressing products, such as hydroquinone or arbutin, and regular use of a retinoid, are standard pre-treatment protocol for most procedures (especially pulsed light, laser treatments and some...
As IPL Photofacial is a light-based treatment, and patients with SLE and other forms of lupus are photo (light) sensitive, you should avoid these treatments. We recommend to our lupus patients to treat their redness with V Beam laser instead, and their brown pigmentation treatmented with...
In my office I often do microdermabrasion directly before an IPL, especially on people with stubborn areas of browns. It's fine to do the treatments the same day (as long as a peel isn't applied), or you can stagger them a few weeks apart like you're suggesting.