The Right Way to Treat Keloid Scars
A scar will more times than not result from cuts, injuries, and surgery. But not every scar is as simple as leaving a mark at the site of the original injury. There is a scar known as a keloid that grows beyond the borders of the original skin injury.
Women and people with highly pigmented skin have the highest contraction rate for this type of scar. However keloids are not limited to just those subsets of people as anyone can get them. The most susceptible areas of the body to form keloids are the deltoid region of the upper arm, the upper back and the sternum. Due to piercing of ears, keloids have had a high rate of growing on earlobes.
The exact cause of why keloid scars grow beyond the original injury is still not fully understood. Factors most common related are skin trauma, muscle tension, and infection at a wound site. In addition hereditary factors seem to play a role as there is a high percentage of this scar being found amongst family members. The main effort at preventing keloids' formation are not having any piercings or tattoos and notifying your doctor before any surgery of keloid history within your family. When they do form, there are a few possibilities that can be applied to diminish them with the ultimate goal of keloid removal.
One would hope that surgically removing them would solve the problem right away. Unfortunately there is a 50% recurrence rate of a new keloid scar forming when the skin is healing from the surgery wound. The hope of laser treatments having a lower rate of recurrence did not pan out as the scar's regrowth had about the same chances after this type of treatment.
Having said that paired along with other treatment plans surgery will have a lower possibility of causing the regrowth of a new keloid scar. Radiation therapy subsequent to surgery is a treatment that can limit chances of a new keloid by up to 70% studies have shown. Nevertheless the possible side effects associated with using radiation can outweigh the treatment of what is a benign outgrowth of the skin. Malignancy is one's main fear in this regard.
Cryosurgery would be useful minus its effect of leaving permanent hyperpigmentation among those with darker skin.
There does exist a natural and safe keloid treatment that does not leave any of these unwanted side effects. Used by itself or accompanying surgery, a skin cream containing all natural ingredients along with Helix Aspersa Muller (snail serum) has historically diminished the size and appearance of keloids. Keloid scars benefit from this ingredient for the reason that the scar's tissues are regenerated by the molecular properties inherent within snail serum. Keloid scar removal tried with a skin care cream such as BIOSKINREPAIR involves initiating the regenerative processes of the skin and orchestrating the biosynthesis and deposition of new collagen.
Published August 19th, 2010
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