The DermaPhi Patient Guide

Treatment Aftercare

Choose a category, then open the treatment you received. Your personalized discharge instructions and your treating provider’s directions always take priority.

Contact DermaPhi promptly for worsening pain, marked swelling, blistering, drainage, fever, or unusual discoloration. After injectables, sudden vision changes, severe unusual pain, weakness, trouble speaking, swallowing, or breathing require emergency care.

Injectables

  • Do not rub, massage, or apply firm pressure to treated areas.
  • Avoid strenuous exercise, saunas, steam rooms, and excessive heat during early recovery.
  • Remain upright for the period specified by your injector.
  • Apply makeup gently only if the skin is intact and your provider permits it.

Small bumps, tenderness, redness, headache, or mild bruising can occur temporarily.

  • Use a cool compress only as directed and avoid heavy pressure.
  • Avoid strenuous exercise, alcohol, and excessive heat during early recovery.
  • Sleep slightly elevated if swelling is present.
  • Do not schedule dental work or other procedures close to treatment unless cleared.

Unusual pain, vision changes, or white, gray, blue, or mottled skin requires immediate evaluation.

  • Do not rub or press injection bumps unless specifically instructed.
  • Avoid makeup until puncture sites have closed.
  • Avoid vigorous exercise, alcohol, swimming, saunas, and excessive heat during early recovery.
  • Use gentle skincare and sunscreen.

Follow the aftercare for the accompanying procedure, such as microneedling or laser treatment.

  • Use only approved post-treatment skincare.
  • Avoid heat, sweating, swimming, exfoliants, and retinoids until cleared.
  • Report increasing redness, swelling, pain, drainage, or rash.
  • Avoid pressure, rubbing, facial massage, and strenuous activity during early recovery.
  • Do not manipulate firmness unless instructed.
  • Avoid alcohol and excessive heat while swollen or bruised.
  • Attend follow-up visits because delayed reactions can occur.
  • Do not massage unless your injector prescribes a specific protocol.
  • Avoid heavy exercise, alcohol, pressure, and excessive heat during early recovery.
  • Use cool compresses with light pressure only as directed.

Unusual pain, vision changes, or skin color changes require immediate evaluation.

Skin Rejuvenation

  • Use only gentle products recommended by your provider.
  • Avoid makeup until the channels have closed.
  • Avoid retinoids, acids, scrubs, and benzoyl peroxide until healed.
  • Avoid sweating, swimming, hot tubs, saunas, and direct sun during early recovery.
  • Do not pick flaking skin.
  • Keep skin clean, cool, and protected from direct sun.
  • Avoid heat, strenuous exercise, swimming, and active skincare until cleared.
  • Do not pick crusting or pinpoint scabs.
  • Use sunscreen once the skin can tolerate it.
  • Follow the aftercare for the delivery method, such as injections or microneedling.
  • Do not stop prescribed medicines without guidance.
  • Avoid strenuous exercise, alcohol, and excessive heat during early recovery.
  • Use gentle skincare, moisturizer, and sunscreen.
  • Avoid aggressive massage, intense heat, and irritating actives if sensitive.
  • Hydrate and follow pain-relief instructions provided.
  • Keep the area moisturized and protected with sunscreen.
  • Avoid excessive heat and aggressive skincare while tender.
  • Do not massage unless instructed.
  • Follow cleansing, soaking, ointment, and dressing instructions exactly.
  • Do not pick peeling skin, crusts, or scabs.
  • Avoid makeup until healed and approved.
  • Avoid direct sun and irritating skincare until cleared.

Laser Treatments

  • Keep the area cool and avoid direct sun and tanning.
  • Avoid hot baths, saunas, intense exercise, and friction while irritated.
  • Use sunscreen on exposed areas.
  • Do not wax, tweeze, or thread between sessions; shave only as directed.
  • Use strict sun protection.
  • Use gentle cleanser and moisturizer.
  • Pause retinoids, acids, scrubs, and bleaching agents until cleared.
  • Do not pick darkened pigment, crusting, or flaking skin.
  • Use gentle skincare and sunscreen.
  • Avoid heat, strenuous exercise, tanning, and irritating actives while red or swollen.
  • Do not pick active lesions.
  • Change acne medication only with guidance.
  • Follow dressing and wound-care instructions exactly.
  • Keep the area clean and avoid friction, swimming, and soaking until healed.
  • Do not pop blisters or pick scabs.
  • Protect the area from sun.

Facials & Peels

  • Use moisturizer or ointment exactly as directed.
  • Do not scratch, rub, peel, or remove flaking skin.
  • Avoid tanning, direct sun, retinoids, acids, scrubs, and waxing until healed.
  • Wait to use makeup until approved for the depth of peel.
  • Follow wound-care instructions if tissue coagulation or lesion treatment was performed.
  • Keep treated sites clean and dry as directed.
  • Do not pick crusts or apply makeup over open areas.
  • Use only approved skincare and sun protection.
  • Use gentle cleanser, moisturizer, and sunscreen.
  • Avoid retinoids, acids, scrubs, and waxing if sensitive.
  • Do not combine with peels, microneedling, or laser treatments until cleared.

Body & Wellness

  • Hydrate unless you have fluid restrictions.
  • Use compression garments only when recommended.
  • Light walking may be encouraged; resume strenuous exercise as directed.
  • Do not aggressively massage a tender area unless the protocol requires it.
  • Use medication only as prescribed.
  • Follow the nutrition, hydration, movement, and follow-up plan.
  • Track significant nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, constipation, dizziness, or other side effects.
  • Attend monitoring visits and laboratory checks when ordered.
  • Keep the bandage on for the recommended time.
  • Hydrate and eat normally unless instructed otherwise.
  • Avoid heavy lifting with the treated arm if sore.
  • Monitor the site for increasing redness, warmth, swelling, drainage, or streaking.

This page is general educational guidance and is not a substitute for personalized discharge instructions, product labeling, device instructions, or medical evaluation.