Keloid Scars and How to Treat Them
A scar will more times than not result from cuts, injuries, and surgery. 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.
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 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. 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. 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. When they do form, there are a few possibilities that can be applied to diminish them with the ultimate goal of keloid removal.
One would hope that surgically removing them would solve the problem right away. Unfortunately there is a 50% recurrence rate of a new keloid scar forming when the skin is healing from the surgery wound. The alternative type of treatment of laser removal unfortunately has about the same rate of recurrence.
On the other hand combined together with some other treatment plans surgery can have a lower rate of having the scar form again. Radiation therapy following surgery is a treatment that could limit chances of a new keloid by up to 70% studies have shown. Nevertheless the potential long term side effects associated with applying radiation can outweigh the treatment of what is a benign outgrowth of the skin. 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 due to the fact the scar's tissues are naturally regenerated by the molecular properties inherent within snail serum. Keloid scar removal tried with a skin care cream such as BIOSKINREPAIR entails stimulating the skin's regenerative processes and orchestrating the biosynthesis and deposition of new collagen.
Published August 19th, 2010
Filed in Skin Care