Keloid Scars and How to Treat Them
The skin's natural restorative healing after one suffers from a cut, injury or surgery will more times than not leave a scar. 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.
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 regions of the body that have the highest rate of forming keloids are the upper arm, the upper back and the sternum. Earlobes are also susceptible in that ear piercings have led to a high rate of keloid formation.
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. It appears that as well hereditary factors come into play as family members are known to share formation traits of keloids. Prevention for those with skin susceptible to this type of scar is mainly confined to not having any piercings or tattoos and notifying your doctor before surgery. 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. Nonetheless there is more than a 50% chance a new keloid scar will form over the surgery wound that was inflicted in the effort to get rid of the original keloid scar. 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 together with additional treatment plans surgery can have a lower rate of having the scar form again. Radiation therapy after surgical excision is a treatment that could limit chances of a new keloid by up to 70% studies have shown. Nevertheless the potential long term 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.
Cryosurgery is said to help but its effect of leaving permanent hyperpigmentation limits its use with people 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 are improved safely from this cream due to the fact its scar tissues are rejuvenated by the molecular properties inherent within snail serum. Keloid scar removal tried with the use of a skin care cream such as BIOSKINREPAIR entails stimulating the regenerative processes of the skin and orchestrating the biosynthesis and deposition of new collagen.
Published August 19th, 2010
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