Skin Lesions

The human body can sustain a variety of injuries, including penetrating trauma, burn trauma and blunt trauma. All of these insults set into motion an orderly sequence of events that are involved in the healing response, in which the normal functional tissue (skin) is replaced by connective tissue (scar) and the healing response is characterized by the movement of specialized cells into the wound site.

Healing is the complex and dynamic process that results in the restoration of anatomical continuity and function. There are four basic responses that can occur following an injury: Normal repair (reestablished equilibrium), is the response where there is a re-established equilibrium between scar formation and scar remodeling. Excessive healing (fibrosis and contractures), there is too much deposition of connective tissue that results in altered structure and, thus, loss of function. Deficient healing (chronic ulcers) is the opposite of fibrosis, it exists when there is insufficient deposition of connective tissue matrix and the tissue is weakened to the point where it can fall apart. And the fourth is tissue regeneration.

We classify two groups of scars: Mayor and Minor Scars. Mayor Scars include Burn Scars, Keloids and Hipertrophic Scars. As minor scars we include atrophic scars, sun related scars and general scars. Sun related scars are Actinic Keratosis Lesions and Age spots. Finally general minor scars are those that are characterized as razor bumps, scaratches, bruises and others conditions.

Mayor Scars

Burn Scars
A burn is always an injury that damages and destroys skin layers on different deep levels, are caused by exposure to excessive heat (from the sun, hot liquids, flames, hot objects touching the skin), electricity or certain chemicals. Extreme cold can also cause burning.

When tissue is burned, fluid leaks into them from the blood vessels, causing swelling and pain. In addition, damaged skin and other body surfaces are easily infected because they can no longer act as a barrier against invading organisms.

Severity of burns is related with its deepness. A first degree burn is limited to the epidermis. Sometimes referred to as partial thickness burns, second degree burns are characterized as either "superficial" or "deep". Both second degree burn types penetrate deeper than a first degree burn and destroy the epidermal layers, extending into the dermis layer. A third degree burn-also known as a full thickness burn-destroys all the epidermal and dermal skin layers.

Keloid scars
Keliod scars are actually thick, puckered, itchy clusters of scar tissue that grow beyond the edges of a wound or incision and rarely regress. Keloid scars are sometimes very nodular in nature, and they are often darker in color than surrounding skin. They occur when the body continues to produce tough, fibrous protein (known as collagen) after a wound has healed.

Hypertrophic scars
Hypertrophic scars sometimes are difficult to distinguish from keloid scars histologically and biochemically, but unlike keloids, hypertropic scars remain confined to the injury site and often mature and flatten out over time. Both types secrete larger amounts of collagen than normal scars, but typically the hypertrophic type exhibits declining collagen synthesis after about six months.

Minor Scars

Atrophic scars
Atrophic scars are characterized by a thinning and diminished elasticity of the skin due to a loss of normal skin architecture. An example of an atrophic scar is striae distensae, also known as stretch marks. Striae commonly occur in postpartum women after childbirth and also during times of larger-than-average weight gain and also in association with steroids. Atrophic scars are sometimes also observed after trauma, infection and disease, and may show loss of surface markings and smoothness or dry, fine wrinkles over time.

Sun Related Scars
Here we can include Actinic Keratosis and Age Spots as a response to excessive sun exposure conditions or sun damaged skin.

Actinic Keratosis
Actinic keratosis is one of the most common sun-induced pre-cancerous skin lesions and precursor of squamous cell carcinoma as well as basal cell carcinoma.

Individuals with light skin are most likely to develop actinic keratosis. The condition is directly associated to sun exposure, and therefore is sometimes called "solar keratosis". In fact, fair- skinned individuals living in sunny climates have over 50 percent chance of developing actinic keratosis. Furthermore, regardless of age, all individuals with blue eyes and or childhood freckling are at a higher risk to develop actinic keratosis.

Age Spots

Age spots are tan, brown or black spots that appear over time on sun exposed areas of skin. These spots are common on the back of the hand, face and legs. Those who tan extensively will also have them over the shoulders, back, chest and many other areas of skin. Lentigines are superficial collections of skin pigment called melanin -the pigmented cells in your skin- which have accumulated within the top layer of skin called the epidermis. Ephelides are common in lighter type skin in individuals who sunburn easily. Lentigines usually appear later in life and can occur in all skin types.

Wrinkles
Wrinkles are creases or folds in the skin. In aging skin, they occur because of the loss of elasticity that accompanies aging and generalized loss of dermal thickness.

Even though wrinkles are part of aging age alone is not the sole cause. Only "laugh lines" are a natural consequence of aging. Those occur because elastic fibers in the skin loosen over time, allowing the skin to sag and fold in on itself. Repeated muscle movement also causes furrows. Most of the rest of the lines in a "lived-in face" are a consequence of overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) sunlight, both UVA (responsible for tanning, wrinkling, and melanoma) and UVB (responsible for sunburn and basal and squamous cell carcinoma). UV light may damage skin by increasing the production of proteolytic enzymes that break down collagen, the connective tissue located beneath the dermis.

General scars

Razors Bumps
You shave to make your skin look better -smooth, hair-free, sleek. So the last thing that you want is to whisk the razor over your legs and rise up an ugly red rash. Unfortunately, a lot of women do just that when they shave incorrectly. They slap on soap and quickly shave over it, and end up with chafed, red skin -also known as razor burn.

Razor burn is actually a skin irritation. When you shave, you're basically peeling off part of your epidermis -the top layer of skin. The redness is a normal response to tissue injury. Blood flow increases to the area to heal the wound, and blood vessels dilate and become red. Razor burn is hard to get rid of. Every time you shave again, you re-irritate your skin.

Ingrown Hairs....
An Ingrown Hair appears when the end of the hair shaft is cut resulting in a sharpened edge that as it grows, curls back into the same hair follicle and results in an inflammatory response (redness, itchiness, and/or raised infected area).

The hair curls over inside the follicle under the skin (just like the "razor bump" hair curls above the skin). By curling and being trapped, the hair creates a foreign body reaction in the hair follicle, causes inflammation in the follicle and results in a bump.

The most common symptom of an ingrown hair is an inflammation of the skin, followed by pus formation. Each ingrown hair results in a tiny, mildly painful pimple with a barely visible hair curling into the center. It is generally itching, tingling, more or less painful, hard, prominent, and often generates scars in chronic cases.

BIOSKINREPAIR ™ treatment for skin lesions

BIOSKINREPAIR is a natural skin product that can help your body restore health to your skin and trigger the production of new collagen, elastin and all the structural components of the skin matrix. The main ingredient in the cream is a natural substance produced by a live land snail (Helix Aspersa Muller), the same they use to quickly repair their own skin and shell when damaged. It is a liquid that is made into an odorless white cream with no alien or synthetic chemicals.

What is unique about it? Its high bio-availability and signaling function, which allows them to dissolve damage tissues, minimize scar tissue formation as well as repairing damaged skin tissues. 

BIOSKINREPAIR ™ CREAM is a natural cosmetic product, not a drug or pharmaceutical product aimed to cure a disease.

Topical application of the cream on skin has shown to decrease dermal fibroblast proliferation, and prevent and reduce scars and sores.

Analysis of the fluid has determined that it contains activators of skin growth factors and antimicrobial peptides. Also present are natural anti-inflammatory and immune modulating proteins, enzymes and glycoproteins, and glycosaminoglycans that restore the water holding capacity of the skin.

In a nutshell : BIOSKINREPAIR ™ is anti-microbial product, helps to prevent skin infections and minimized scars. You can use it for treating a wide variety of skin problems: wounds, rashes, cracked, dry skin, keloids, acne scars, stretch marks and others. It has been used on age lines, age spots, abrasions, athlete's foot, boils, chilblains, diabetic sores, diaper rash, infected nails, insect bites/stings, skin allergies and skin ulcers with incredible results. It is just excellent for helping the skin to repair itself. Wounds heal with minimal scarring. It also helps shrink old scars .