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. However not all scars are as basic as leaving behind a mark over the original injury spot. 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 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.
The exact cause of why keloid scars grow beyond the original injury is still not fully understood. 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. 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. 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. 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.
However merged with additional treatment plans surgery can result with a lower possibility the reformation of the scar. Radiation therapy following surgical excision is a treatment that can limit the regrowth of a new keloid up to 70% according to certain studies. Nevertheless the possible side effects associated with applying radiation could easily outweigh its treatment of a benign skin scar. The feared outcome with this is malignancy.
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 are treated successfully by this cream for the reason that its scar tissues are naturally regenerated by the molecular properties found within snail serum. Keloid scar removal attempted with a skin care cream such as BIOSKINREPAIR involves initiating the regenerative processes of the skin and orchestrating the biosynthesis and deposition of new collagen.
Published August 19th, 2010
Filed in Skin Care
