Laser fabric treats skin diseases in single session

Scientists at Texinov Medical Textiles in France have developed the wearable laser that strikes the skin with light, giving treatment to enflamed skin or lesions over a two-and-a-half-hour appointment.

The laser fabric is claimed to be the quickest device available for eradicating skin conditions with no side effects.

The new Fluxmedicare laser fabric has been developed in collaboration with PHOS-ISTOS, a pan-European health consortium.

It works by covering the affected area with a photosensitizer cream, then wrapping the skin with the light-emitting textile. Optical fibres knitted into the fabric then speed up the reaction between oxygen and photosensitizer cream beneath the skin.

Dr Nadege Boucard, R&D general manager at Texinov said: “Fluxmedicare is unprecedented in the field of treating skin conditions. Since the lighting textile wraps around the unique, individual contours of a patient, the emitted light in our device is the same at every part of the body under treatment, meaning the beams are homogenous.”