Keloid Scars and How to Treat Them
A scar will more times than not result from cuts, injuries, and surgery. 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.
This abnormal scar can affect anyone but women and individuals with highly pigmented skin have a higher rate of contracting them. The regions of the body that have the highest rate of forming keloids are the upper arm, the upper back and the sternum. Earlobes are also susceptible in that ear piercings have led to a high rate of keloid formation.
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. 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 alternative type of treatment of laser removal unfortunately has about the same rate of recurrence.
However put together together with additional treatment plans surgery can have a lower rate of having the scar form again. Radiation therapy after surgery is a treatment that can limit chances of a new keloid by up to 70% studies have shown. However the potential long term side effects associated with using radiation could easily outweigh its treatment of a benign skin scar. Malignancy is one's main fear in this regard.
Another option to use would be cryosurgery but its side effect of leaving permanent hyperpigmentation on people with darker skin limits its use.
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 benefit from this ingredient for the reason that 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 entails initiating the skin's regenerative processes and orchestrating the biosynthesis and deposition of new collagen.
Published August 19th, 2010
Filed in Skin Care
