How to Best Treat Keloid Scars
How we best diminish scars is an important question as scars will in most every case develop from any cut or injury we experience. Three sorts of scars encompass the full range of how they can appear on the skin. Atrophic, pitted scars will leave the cut or injury indented. Raised, hypertrophic scars will raise on top of the injury or cut but not beyond its borders. And then there are keloid scars. These develop beyond the edges of the injury or cut to areas of the skin that were originally not injured. This is the hardest form of scar to treat for several reasons.
First of all the sources of keloid scars can range from burns to cuts to piercings to inflammatory reactions triggered by acne. The second thing they may only begin to form after a prolonged timespan has elapsed since the original injury. The third and most dispiriting problem is removing the scar successfully through surgery could very easily cause a new keloid scar to raise over the surgery wound!
These characteristics of this form of scar call for a deeper investigation as to how one should address them.
Finding an Effective Treatment for Keloids
Doctors typically use complementary treatment methods to accompany surgery that diminish that chances of a post keloid treatment recurrence. The primary techniques involved with this strategy are compression therapy and steroid injections.
The injection of steroids can be used both before, during, or after the sugery with the outcome of flattening the scar's form. Long-acting cortisone (steroid) shots are generally injected on average one time a month with the difference in size recognizable in three to six months time. The good part is the cortisone reduces the size of the scar with very little of it getting into the bloodstream.
Compression bandages are thought to work by limiting oxygen to the scar which cuts down on the biological process that leads to the formation of keloid scars. They are customized made garments that are made to be worn 24 hours a day and changed weekly for a period of six to eighteen months. They have a track record of successfully reducing the size of the scar but the effort and time is very consuming.
How to Remove Keloids By Using an All Natural Non-Incision Cream
Skin products using all natural ingredients promote overall scar healing of keloids. BIOSKINREPAIR is a skin care cream formulated with all natural ingredients coupled with the snail secretion having the scientific name of Helix Aspersa Muller. The properties of these ingredients are successful for keloid scar treatment due to repairing the scar's damaged skin cells which then regenerates new tissues.
Published August 17th, 2010
Filed in Skin Care
