Laser sweat ablation (LSA) for people coming from far away or overseas.
Approximately half of our patients who wish to have laser sweat ablation (LSA) are coming from a long way away in the UK or from overseas.
This has meant that we have to modify our usual routine for such patients to make this procedure available to them in a reasonable time.
Therefore if you are in this position, what we ask is:
- E-mail us to let us know that you are interested in laser sweat ablation (LSA).
- Tell us your age, height and weight, what areas you sweat from, how long you have had the sweating for
- Tell us any treatment you have tried for hyperhidrosis in the past and any treatment you are having at present
- Tell us any medication you are on
- Send a photograph of each armpit so we can check there are no scars or signs of infection
- If we need any further information we will then be able to ask you this by e-mail.
If it does appear that you are suitable for laser sweat ablation (LSA), we will be able to book you a consultation and sweat test on one day, ask you to stay locally overnight and then have your laser sweat ablation procedure (LSA) the following day.
We would prefer you to stay within the UK for the next 48 hours just in case there was a problem, but now with over 80 procedures behind us we are quite confident that we will be able to advise on any complications by e-mail correspondence and photographs. As such, although we would prefer this, if you did have to leave within the 48 hours post surgery this is possible provided you have good access e-mail and you accept it is not our usual recommendation.
By instituting the above, we have managed to bring this procedure and its benefits to a great many people who otherwise would not have access to it.
Note
Although "Laser Sweat Ablation" or "LSA" has been advertised elsewhere in the UK, the actual Laser Sweat Ablation procedure has only been developed by Mark Whiteley of The Whiteley Clinic. This is being continuously improved and modified on the results of The Whiteley Clinic’s on-going audit and research. To date, no UK doctor has been on the Whiteley Clinic LSA course to learn this technique. Hence any other individual, clinic or hospital in the UK offering "Laser Sweat Ablation" or "LSA" is not using the Whiteley Technique and has not been trained in the settings and techniques that The Whiteley Clinic has shown to be optimal by it’s research.
