Starting Light Therapy

[Caroline]

That's a crazy amount and the effects are always short term so you will be going back again and again . Yes ask the dermatologist for a systemic treatment either tablet or injection  or look towards buying your own UV lamp to do it at home . But if you choose that course be very careful not to exceed the recommended doses

That is why I mentioned this Jim. The dutch article on low doses lichttherapy. It was published in a magazine of the Dutch psoriasis association.


Following a bit clumsy translation, by Google Translate.

Traditional light therapy versus maintenance therapy
Recently retired biophysicist Frank ******
has during his working
much research has been done. Last year he and dermatologist Peter ******
Did a literature review on light therapy. What were their findings?

Frank starts the conversation with
to tell you that he has already
has been involved in
look for light therapy. 'Initiate,
together with Stan *****
2. Stan is a
open minded dermatologist who likes
looking at new ideas. Guidelines,
e.g. for psoriasis, indicate
which treatments are scientific
proven and therefore preferable
must be prescribed. But
that doesn't mean there aren't others
treatments are possible.
"In 2003 Stan and I were approached
by two TU Delft students who
Had a lamp for the shower
developed. They came to our
clinic with a small grant of 2500
euros from the Ministry of the Economy
sche Business to research
the efficacy and safety of those
lamp. That was just when
Stan and I got interested
in vitamin D. So we thought: let's go
let's see if that lamp helps with the
production of vitamin D in the body
"Initially we have together
with dermatologists from the VU in
Amsterdam, namely Sylvie **** and
Thomas **** who researched
among people with sun allergies. It
it is known that those people with habituated
ning therapy can be treated
turn into. The skin is then hardened against
UV radiation. The lamp was very effective
and the patients were very happy
along. They no longer had to leave the house
for their treatment.'
Psoriasis
'At a certain point, the invest-
tar, whose wife had psoriasis, the
further develop lamp as a medical
application. After hearing stories
of people with psoriasis who reported
that their skin had become very clean,
I have together with Stan and dermatologists
of the VU made preparations
for an investigation. After that there is in
Amsterdam and Leiden six months
researched home treatment
with a dose of UV light that significantly
is lower than the dose given by conventional
quick light therapy in the hospital or
day treatment center is given.
It appeared to work very well.