The Right Way to Treat Keloid Scars
Surgery, injuries, and cuts will more times than not leave a scar. Unfortunately every scar is not as basic a leaving a mark at the site of the skin injury. Keloids are those type of scars that grow beyond the original boundaries of where the original injury occurred on the skin.
Anyone has the ability to contract this type of scar but women and people with highly pigmented skin have historically had a higher contraction rate. 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.
It is not fully understood as to exactly how or why keloid scars grow so abnormally. Most commonly found in keloid cases are skin trauma, muscle tension and infection at the site of the skin wound. 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. 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.
It would be nice to think it would be as simple as removing them surgically. Unfortunately there is a 50% recurrence rate of a new keloid scar forming when the skin is healing from the surgery wound. Laser treatments were hoped to have a lower recurrence rate but to no avail.
Having said that paired with additional treatment plans surgery can have a lower rate of having the scar form again. Radiation therapy following the surgical removal of the scar is a treatment that can limit recurrence by up to 70% studies have shown. Having said that the possible side effects associated with applying 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.
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 due to the fact its scar tissues are naturally regenerated by the molecular properties inherent in snail serum. Keloid scar removal attempted with a skin care cream such as BIOSKINREPAIR entails stimulating the skin's regenerative processes and orchestrating the biosynthesis and deposition of new collagen.
Published August 19th, 2010
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