The Right Way to Treat Keloid Scars
The skin's natural restorative healing after one suffers from a cut, injury or surgery 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. Keloid scars are those that grow beyond the borders of the original skin injury, and in some cases grow uncontrollably.
This abnormal scar can affect anyone but women and individuals with highly pigmented skin have a higher rate of contracting them. 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. It appears that as well hereditary factors come into play as family members are known to share formation traits of keloids. 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.
One would hope that surgically removing them would solve the problem right away. 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.
Even so put together with other treatment plans surgery can result with a lower possibility the reformation of the 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. On the other hand the possible side effects associated with applying radiation can outweigh the treatment of what is a benign outgrowth of the skin. What one fears using this treatment is a malignancy effect.
Cryosurgery would be useful minus its effect of leaving permanent hyperpigmentation among those 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 benefit from this ingredient due to the fact the scar's tissues are naturally regenerated by the molecular properties inherent in snail serum. Keloid scar removal attempted with the use of a skin care cream such as BIOSKINREPAIR encompasses stimulating the regenerative processes of the skin and orchestrating the biosynthesis and deposition of new collagen.
Published August 19th, 2010
Filed in Skin Care
