Almasi Skincare offers intralesional steroid injections in Nairobi Kenya to treat various skin conditions.
Intralesional steroid injections are medications that are given right into the skin lesions. This is a very effective form of treatment since it bypasses the barrier formed by the different layers of the skin and delivers a high concentration of the medication right into the skin lesion. It therefore results in rapid resolution of the skin condition.
Steroids that are used in this form of treatment include triamcinolone acetonide.
During an intralesional steroid injection procedure, the skin is cleaned with an alcohol wipe or antiseptic solution. The medication is then drawn into a fine needle. It can be diluted with a local anesthetic like 1% or 2% lignocaine without adrenaline or with sterile normal saline or sterile water for injection to achieve the right concentration for the skin condition being treated. The medication is then injected into the skin lesion. These injections are repeated every 4 weeks.
Side effects of steroid injections include pain, skin atrophy, hypopigmentation, bleeding, infection, allergic dermatitis and sterile abscess. Other side effects include systemic absorption of the steroids with adrenal suppression.
Intralesional steroid injections are used to treat the following skin conditions:
Keloids 40 mg/ml
Hypertrophic scars 10 mg/ml
Discoid lupus erythematosus 2.5 – 10 mg/ml
Granuloma annulare 5-10 mg/ml
Acne keloidalis nuchae 5-10 mg/ml
Alopecia areata scalp 5 mg/ml face 3.3 mg/ml
Prurigo nodularis 5 mg/ml
Hidradenitis suppurativa 3.3-5 mg/ml
Lichen simplex chronicus 2.5-5 mg/ml
Sarcoidosis face 2.5 mg/ml body 5 mg/ml
Psoriasis 2.5-5 mg/ml
Acne cysts face 1-2 mg/ml trunk 2.5 mg/ml with 0.1 ml for each cyst. The total dose should not exceed 1 ml.
Hypertrophic lichen planus
Necrobiosis lipoidica
Inflamed epidermoid cysts
Infantile hemagiomas
Intralesional Steroid Injections in Nairobi Kenya Safety
Intralesional steroid injections should not be given to persons allergic to triamcinolone acetonide, personal with local active viral infections (e.g. herpes) or bacterial infections (e.g. impetigo, tuberculosis), fungal infections, extensive psoriasis, active peptic ulcer disease, uncontrolled hypertension, uncontrolled diabetes, uncontrolled heart failure, severe depression, psychosis.
To book your intralesional steroid injections in Nairobi Kenya please email almasiskincare@gmail.com
