The latest treatment for xanthelasma of the eyelid

Xanthoma is a type of xanthoma, which is caused by lipid deposition in the eyelids, resulting in a skin disease. Xanthelasma appears as yellow or orange patches shaped like grains of rice. In severe cases, it can cover the entire eyelid. When treating xanthoma of the eyelid, it is also necessary to consider whether the patient has hyperlipidemia. The treatment methods are different for different patients. So, what is the latest treatment for xanthelasma?

Drug coating

This includes traditional Chinese medicine, so-called secret recipes passed down from generation to generation (most of which are scams), and chemicals, such as various acids, including vinegar. There are also some academic papers (a considerable number of these papers were rushed out in order to obtain professional titles or complete doctoral dissertations. They are not very credible and have no practical value. Please use them with caution).

Injection

Nowadays, many different injectable drugs are injected into the tumor in an attempt to achieve the purpose of treatment by changing the biological characteristics of the tumor. In fact, many of them are just attempts without obvious statistical effectiveness. They are just local subject research and hope to have good results. However, in some cases, the disease spreads in a cloud-like manner after injection, and there is currently no follow-up dynamic observation and annotation.

Laser

This type of treatment is currently the mainstream, including many tertiary-level A-class hospitals. What needs to be reminded is that before doing this treatment, have you studied pathological histology carefully? From the perspective of pathological histology, xanthelasma of the upper eyelid is located in the subcutaneous and subcutaneous tissue, deep into the muscular layer, while the structure of the skin itself has not changed, or is intact. Current laser treatments vaporize the epidermis where the tumor is located, but have no therapeutic effect on the actual tumor in the deep layer. This treatment not only has no therapeutic effect, but will stimulate the rapid proliferation of the deep xanthelasma tissue and accelerate its expansion. At the same time, many scar complications have appeared in clinical practice. Therefore, laser treatment of xanthelasma is a treatment technique that should be prohibited.

Frozen

The therapeutic principle of cryosurgery is similar to that of laser, but it is milder (this refers to mildness, not humidity), and will not cause damage to deep tissues and cause serious scar complications, but superficial scars are inevitable.