Patient's question:
Medical Description: Feeling weak all over. Two days ago, I went to the hospital for a check-up. The doctor said it was phimosis, and the condition was quite severe with some inflammation. I've been undergoing 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.Past Medical History and Treatment Effects: Currently being treated.
Help Needed: I'm asking about the effectiveness of these treatments.
Doctor's answer:
The red light therapy device has the following effects:(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 and metabolism of tissue active substances and pain-causing substances, and rapidly eliminating inflammation. Red light irradiation can also effectively inhibit neural excitation, relax muscles, allow sufficient aerobic metabolism in the painful area, block the vicious cycle of pain, and achieve 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. This increases repulsive forces between red blood cells, causing them to disperse from their original clumped state, thereby reducing blood viscosity.