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.
This abnormal scar can affect anyone but women and individuals with highly pigmented skin have a higher rate of contracting 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.
The jury is still out as to why keloid scars grow beyond the site of the original injury. 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. After they do form there exists some option you can take to promote their diminishment with the overall 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.
On the other hand merged with additional treatment plans surgery can result with a lower possibility the reformation of the scar. Radiation therapy following surgery is a treatment that could limit the regrowth of a new keloid by up to 70% according to certain studies. However the possible side effects associated with using radiation could easily outweigh its treatment of a benign skin scar. Malignancy is one's main fear in this regard.
Another option to use would be cryosurgery but its side effect of leaving permanent hyperpigmentation on people with darker skin limits its use.
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 benefit from this ingredient due to the fact the scar's tissues are naturally regenerated by the molecular properties inherent within snail serum. Keloid scar removal tried with a skin care cream such as BIOSKINREPAIR entails initiating the regenerative processes of the skin and orchestrating the biosynthesis and deposition of new collagen.
Published August 19th, 2010
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