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Hi Alice, do you know anything about sebaceous hyperplasia and how they can be treated or indeed by whom?
Sebaceous hyperplasia – where you get lots of little bumps under the skin where oil has become trapped and the oil gland is enlarged – is an absolute pain. These become more common with age, and to get rid of existing ones you need to tackle them directly with lasers. I’d look for a practitioner who does a serious amount of laser – search for laser practitioners on our Practitioner Finder and have a consultation about how the practitioner would propose to treat you.
I’ve got a whole bunch of these sebaceous hyperplasia growths myself and am not fond of them. The laser treatment I had with the Sciton Halo has helped reduce some of them a good deal but more keep springing up, so from experience I’d say you may need more than one round of treatment to ablate them. I’m looking at a new treatment called CellFx that can clear sebaceous hyperplasia and I’ll be reporting on that when I’ve tried it.
To reduce the rate at which they’re forming, a dermatologist told me to stick to skincare that would clean, hydrate and regenerate the skin without adding any extra oil, so that’s a glycolic or vitamin-C based wash-off cleanser, an L-ascorbic acid vitamin C serum in the mornings, plus a hyaluronic acid serum for hydration, then a mineral-based sunscreen, and at night, the same glycolic wash, plus a glycolic-acid night treatment product (or retinoid), or just the hydrating serum if you don’t want to use the treatment product every night.