Excimer laser therapy uses intense concentrated beams of ultraviolet laser light to help control psoriasis outbreaks.
Excimer laser psoriasis side effects.
Overall no serious adverse events were noted in the trials with the 308nm excimer laser for treatment of psoriasis see table 1.
Excimer laser treatment is usually painless but possible side effects include redness and sunburn like pain.
Redness in light skin or purpleness in dark skin.
More research is needed to determine whether exposure to uvb light.
Darkening or lightening of the skin hyperpigmentation or hypopigmentation scarring.
Because it does not harm the healthy skin surrounding treated areas this therapy rarely produces serious or long lasting side effects in patients.
However they may include.
The treatments were usually well tolerated with common side effects generally limited to erythema blistering hyperpigmentation and peri lesional edema secondary to a phototoxic reaction.
While getting these treatments you may also need to use another treatment at home.
Minars informs that the side effects can include a sunburn or even a blister.