I am currently at college, but will be going home for a weekend. For iontophoresis, your're supposed to use it everyday for around 10 days. If I use it for 3 hours a day, for three days would it work the same? I could space out the times and use it during the morning, afternoon, and night, but would that be effective?
Question About Iontophoresis
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Jezza
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Well because the method of action of ionto is unknown nobody can really answer this unless they happen to have tried this approach (but I don't think many have done sessions of 3 hours at a time 
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As for me personally I would gestimate that frequent repetitions are more effective than long treatments with longer breaks (say a couple of days instead of daily), but then the longest treatments I did were for about an hour...not 3 hours..
If it's just a few days and you can't bring the device with you, you might be kinda ok skipping a few days of treatment. It's not ideal sweatwise and if your situation is comparable to me your hands (particularly fingers/fingertips) will absolutely start to get a little moist after a few days of no treatments but with a little caution handshakes are still possible in my case. I've done this a few times when going to stay at friends for a weekend and managed to get through the dreaded inevitable handshakes at the end ok.
).As for me personally I would gestimate that frequent repetitions are more effective than long treatments with longer breaks (say a couple of days instead of daily), but then the longest treatments I did were for about an hour...not 3 hours..
If it's just a few days and you can't bring the device with you, you might be kinda ok skipping a few days of treatment. It's not ideal sweatwise and if your situation is comparable to me your hands (particularly fingers/fingertips) will absolutely start to get a little moist after a few days of no treatments but with a little caution handshakes are still possible in my case. I've done this a few times when going to stay at friends for a weekend and managed to get through the dreaded inevitable handshakes at the end ok.