Patient's question:
[Condition Description: Feeling weak all over, went to the hospital two days ago for a check-up. The doctor said it was phimosis, a severe condition with some inflammation. I've been having surgery for three days now, and the doctor has asked me to go to the hospital every day for intravenous fluids, red light therapy, and something called mist therapy. I'm wondering what the effects of these treatments are.History of Previous Treatment and Effect: Currently undergoing treatment.
Help Needed: I'm asking about the effectiveness of these treatments.]
Doctor's answer:
The effects of the red light therapy device include:(1) Effectively inhibits inflammation and relieves pain: Red light irradiation can control staphylococcal infection-induced inflammation. Its main mechanism involves stimulating the body's defense capabilities, enhancing immune function, promoting the generation of active substances and the metabolism of pain-causing substances, thereby quickly eliminating inflammation. Red light irradiation can also effectively inhibit neural excitation, relax muscles, and allow the pain area to undergo sufficient aerobic metabolism, breaking the vicious cycle of pain, and achieving the goals of relieving muscle spasms, alleviating pain, and improving pain conditions.
(2) Accelerates wound healing: The bio-stimulation effect of red light can effectively promote the proliferation of fibrocytes and endothelial cells, increase cellular metabolism, enhance cellular synthesis, and promote granulation tissue growth, leading to rapid wound healing.
(3) Lowers blood viscosity: By improving the deformability of red blood cells, enhancing the aggregation of red blood cells and platelets, and increasing the oxygen-carrying capacity of red blood cells, red light helps restore the original negative charge of red blood cells, increasing their mutual repulsion. This causes red blood cells that were originally clustered to disperse, thereby reducing blood viscosity.