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. Keloid scars are those that grow beyond the borders of the original skin injury, and in some cases grow uncontrollably.
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 sternum, upper arm, and upper back are the main regions where this type of scar is found. Ear piercings have caused there to be a significant amount of cases found on earlobes.
It is not fully understood as to exactly how or why keloid scars grow so abnormally. Factors most common related are skin trauma, muscle tension, and infection at a wound site. Family members having keloids present the possibility that the chances of forming this type of scar is highly augmented as the hereditary factor is believed to have a correlation effect. What is recommended to prevent this type of scar is mainly confined to not piercing any part of the body nor getting any tattoos. Let your doctor know of any keloid formation within your family before any surgery. 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. Alas the nature of this scar makes for its re-formation on top of the surgery scar around 50%. Laser treatments were hoped to have a lower recurrence rate but to no avail.
Even so paired together with additional treatment plans surgery can have a lower rate of having the scar form again. Radiation therapy following surgical excision is a treatment that could limit chances of a new keloid by up to 70% according to certain studies. However what could be the side effects associated with using radiation can outweigh the treatment of what is a benign outgrowth of the skin. The feared outcome with this is malignancy.
Cryosurgery would be useful minus its effect of leaving permanent hyperpigmentation among those with darker skin.
A keloid treatment that does not leave any of these unwanted side effects consists of an effective skin cream that contains all natural ingredients along with the use of Helix Aspersa Muller, or snail serum. Keloid scars are treated successfully by this cream because its scar tissues are rejuvenated by the molecular properties inherent within snail serum. Keloid scar removal attempted with the use of a skin care cream such as BIOSKINREPAIR encompasses stimulating the regenerative processes of the skin and orchestrating the biosynthesis and deposition of new collagen.
Published August 19th, 2010
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