Keloid Scars and How to Treat Them
Surgery, injuries, and cuts will more times than not leave a scar. But not every scar is as simple as leaving a mark at the site of the original injury. There is a scar known as a keloid that grows beyond the borders of the original skin injury.
Anyone has the ability to contract this type of scar but women and people with highly pigmented skin have historically had a higher contraction rate. The most susceptible areas of the body to form keloids are the deltoid region of 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 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. The main effort at preventing keloids' formation are not having any piercings or tattoos and notifying your doctor before any surgery of keloid history within your family. When they do form, there are a few possibilities that can be applied to diminish them with the ultimate goal of keloid removal.
Surgery would appear to be the most obvious method of keloid scar removal. 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.
Having said that put together together with other treatment plans surgery will have a lower possibility of causing the regrowth of a new keloid scar. Radiation therapy after surgical excision is a treatment that can limit the regrowth of a new keloid up to 70% according to certain studies. On the other hand what could be the side effects associated with applying radiation could easily outweigh its treatment of a benign skin scar. 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.
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 are treated successfully by this cream for the reason that its scar tissues are rejuvenated by the molecular properties found in snail serum. Keloid scar removal tried with 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
