Iontophoresis: itching - what to do?

Not a nice problem, but one that is easy to control with simple means.

Hygiene: Take boiling water, clean and disinfect all parts that come into contact with water.

The itching is usually located at the waterline.

The waterline is where the iontophoresis treatment water meets the air.

This area is usually on the sides of the hands or feet.

This, in turn, is a sign that the water level is not optimized.

Often this also occurs: Do you have such small blisters that itch?

These blisters then eventually form something like calluses?

This is probably dyshidrotic eczema - please have this clarified by a doctor - it usually itches even more under iontophoresis.

However, such eczema improves quite quickly in most cases (not necessarily from iontophoresis, but rather from hyperhidrosis).

Further conceivable would be allergies to soaps / soap residues / water ingredients, allergies or hypersensitivities to cleaners etc. or also electrodes full of patina.

Clean and disinfect thoroughly!

Exchange / disinfect grids / towels! So also times water change (times 3 weeks with mineral water from the glass bottle treat).

Please once exclude everything and change routines (cleaner etc., soaps skin care).

Extremely rare: Extreme allergy to nickel or chrome (for example, if you use the stainless steel electrodes).

Remedy: Special L-shaped or flat aluminum electrodes, or those made of silicone.

OUR SERVICE: We deliver the above free of charge in case of problems - as long as you bought your device with stainless steel electrodes from us.

Rashes and itching along the waterline.

In places with thin skin (e.g. with too high water, or injuries) most of the current flows through the thin layers (thin skin = low resistance).

This often results in rashes and blisters along the waterline (often a sign of too much water) or itching.

These are all signs of a suboptimal therapy setting. Another bad side effect: since most of the current flows through said thin areas, the effect on the "thicker layers", such as the soles, then tends to fail.

The adjustment of the water level for iontophoresis in hyperhidrosis is very important. Below you will find information on how much water you should use to get an optimal or useful personal individual water height.

Redness after treatment

Especially in the beginning, the skin has to get used to the current. The itching or reddening of the skin is a sign that the treatment was too high or too long (or both). Experience has shown that both of these symptoms diminish considerably after a longer period of treatment due to the skin getting used to the current, or they usually disappear altogether.

Do not apply a grease cream to your feet and hands before the treatment, use it accordingly after the treatment.

It would be best to get fresh aloe vera leaf and rub the pulp in a baby grater (glass apple grater). This can then be used to cream and condition.

Great advantage: the fresh pulp can also be used before iontophoresis.

Too little iontophoresis - under-therapy.

Too little treatment was applied here.

The skin is sweating, the skin condition is okay and not cracked? Here was probably treated too little / weakly / not regularly enough?

Too much iontophoresis - over-therapy

Over-Therapy with Iontophoresis In case of over-therapy with iontophoresis, the top layer (or top layers) of the skin becomes very dry and the skin tears painfully in extreme cases.

In general, incorrectly performed sessions with iontophoresis can lead to iontophoresis over-therapy: The upper skin becomes too dry, while the skin layer underneath continues to sweat blithely.

Experiments, especially during the first phase of therapy, are therefore often a bad idea.

Amplifying factors

Over-therapy - What to do?

Influencing factors that can result in too dry or too brittle skin during iontophoresis. Iontophoresis over-therapy, as a result of which the top layer of skin becomes too dry, this occurs in mostly in the initial phase.

During the maintenance phase, these problems are less frequent, but do occur, especially if the therapy routine is not optimized.

The reasons can be manifold, some examples:

1. Current too high
2. Treatment time too long
3. Frequency of iontophoresis too high
4. Skin care
5. Drinking too little

If point 5 is true, a simple remedy is available: just drink more water.

Points 1-3 are obviously correlated.

Often the current is too high, a reduction of the treatment current by 50% for the first time should give an indication.

If you have been in the therapy for a long time, and you are sure that you need a certain dose of iontophoresis to stay dry, you can extend the treatment time accordingly, so that you do not lose the effect by too low a dose.
The hope here is that you do not fall below your current effect threshold.

In general: If you lose the effect of iontophoresis and sweating starts again, this is a sign that you have either fallen below the threshold at which iontophoresis no longer shows any effect for you personally, or that you have fallen below your required current dose.

The current dose threshold is time x current x frequency within the magic number.
The current dose threshold can be increased by increasing one of the above 3 factors, meaningfully the treatment time.

The current-effect threshold has to do with the amount of treatment current.

Analogously, this is controlled via the factor current yield = pulse width times current intensity.

Other factors influencing dry skin during iontophoresis therapy.

Tendency to generally dry and brittle skin: Skin care is very important?

Citrus fruits and juices, disinfectants and much more have direct and indirect influence on the skin.

Read more about iontophoresis and body resistance.