Aftercare

Aftercare following skin treatments & procedures

Procedure-specific aftercare supports healing and helps you recognise when to seek review.

  • Avoid exposure to water and sweat for the first few days
  • Don't stretch wounds that have been stitched
  • Minimise sun exposure in the weeks after treatment
  • Silicone gel can help speed wound healing and reduce scarring
Patient applying silicone gel to a recent closed skin cancer excision scar

Choose the guide for your procedure

Aftercare depends on the procedure and whether the skin is intact, open or closed with stitches. Select the relevant guide below and follow any individual instructions from your doctor or nurse.

Excision wound closed with Steri-Strips during early healing

Gloved fingers supporting skin around a mole marked with a blue fusiform outline.
Excision aftercare
Cryotherapy spray treating lesion on hand
Cryotherapy aftercare
Shave biopsy
Shave biopsy and excision aftercare
Punch biopsy instrument positioned on the skin
Punch biopsy aftercare
Woman receiving red-light activation during facial photodynamic therapy
Photodynamic therapy aftercare
Small healing wound after radiofrequency mole removal
Radiofrequency mole removal aftercare
BBL treatment to the decolletage
BBL aftercare
Laser mole removal
Laser mole removal aftercare
Vascular laser treatment to vessels on nose, close-up
Laser pigmentation, vascular or non-ablative rejuvenation aftercare
Fractional laser treatment
Fractional laser aftercare
Raised scar immediately after fractional laser scar remodelling procedure
Laser scar remodelling aftercare
Discoloured and thickened toenail affected by fungal nail infection
Laser fungal nail treatment aftercare
Fine radiofrequency tip applied to a small skin lesion during treatment.
Precision radiofrequency aftercare

Questions or concerns during recovery?

Contact the clinic if you have increasing pain, spreading redness or warmth, pus, fever, a wound that opens, or bleeding that does not settle with the pressure instructions in your procedure guide.

Email is checked at intervals, including weekends, but is not continuously monitored. For an urgent concern, seek prompt medical care rather than waiting for an email response. For an emergency, call 000.

For dressing care, washing, activity, medicines and follow-up timing, use the guide for your actual procedure. General advice cannot replace the instructions for your wound.