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. Keloids are those type of scars that grow beyond the original boundaries of where the original injury occurred on the skin.
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 regions of the body that have the highest rate of forming keloids are 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 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. 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. Upon their formation however, there are methods that result in diminishment of size and with steady treatment eventual keloid removal.
It would be nice to think it would be as simple as removing them surgically. Alas the nature of this scar makes for its re-formation on top of the surgery scar around 50%. 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 together with additional treatment plans surgery will have a lower possibility of causing the regrowth of a new keloid scar. Radiation therapy subsequent to surgical excision is a treatment that can limit the regrowth of a new keloid up to 70% studies have shown. However the possible 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 natural and safe keloid treatment beneficial to use alone or complementing surgical removal is a skin cream containing Helix Aspersa Muller, or snail serum. Keloid scars are treated successfully by this cream due to the fact the scar's tissues are rejuvenated by the molecular properties found within snail serum. Keloid scar removal tried with a skin care cream such as BIOSKINREPAIR encompasses stimulating the skin's regenerative processes and orchestrating the biosynthesis and deposition of new collagen.
Published August 19th, 2010
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