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. There is a scar known as a keloid that grows beyond the borders of the original skin injury.
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 sternum, upper arm, and upper back are the main regions where this type of scar is found. 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. What has been found as the most common factors are skin trauma, muscle tension, and an infection at the site of the injury. In addition hereditary factors seem to play a role as there is a high percentage of this scar being found amongst family members. 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. Upon their formation however, there are methods that result in diminishment of size and with steady treatment eventual keloid removal.
Surgery would appear to be the most obvious method of keloid scar removal. 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.
However combined with some other treatment plans surgery can result with a lower possibility the reformation of the scar. Radiation therapy after the surgical removal of the scar is a treatment that could limit recurrence 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 improved safely from this cream because the scar's tissues are rejuvenated by the molecular properties found in snail serum. Keloid scar removal tried with the use of a skin care cream such as BIOSKINREPAIR involves initiating the skin's regenerative processes and orchestrating the biosynthesis and deposition of new collagen.
Published August 19th, 2010
Filed in Skin Care
