Dermatologist Shereene Idriss shares how she cleared her postpartum melasma in her 30s without lasers. She says hydroquinone is the gold standard treatment but requires 2-3 month on-off cycles to avoid permanent pigmentation and resistance.
How I transformed my skin in my 30s as a dermatologist who has melasma. And there is no filter here. And no, it is not lasers having gone through ivf. This is my skin the day I gave birth. Hormones were a bitch when it came to my melasma. Here's three things I did to take control of my skin. Number one, Prescription medications is the only way that you can treat your melasma. But it comes with a few caveats. Because the number one gold standard to treat your melasma is hydroquinone. When using hydroquinone, you need to cycle on it two to three months on, two to three months off. And you got to do this, unfortunately, in perpetuity, because if you stay on it, you can develop unwanted side effects, pigmentation that will never go away, and you can even become resistant.
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