subject: A Brief On The Safest Way To Remove Keloid Scars [print this page] Your skin is not only your fortune but it is a great indicator of your health as well. The appearance of the skin indicates its health and a radiant skin is also a healthy skin. Unlike other parts of your body the skin shows up if it is healthy and also indicates quite clearly when it is not. Often people suffer from a variety of skin ailments that tend to reduce the beauty of the skin. Some of these ailments include unsightly acne scars, hypertrophic scars or keloids. Keloids are best described as scars that do not know when they should stop. A keloid scar is a heap of scar that protrudes beyond the rest of the skin. It is normally smooth at the top and of purple or pink colour. Keloids are irregular of shape and may enlarge over a period of time. In this way, keloids are different from scars that subside over a period of time while keloids do not.
When your skin suffers an injury the process of healing will normally leave a scar that is flush with the rest of the skin. However, there are times when the scar becomes thickened or hypertrophic but yet it remains confined to the limits of the wound. The hypertrophic scar will generally be redder and may subside on its own and this process may take as much as a year or even longer. If steroids are used this subsidence can be speeded up. A keloid scar on the other hand will extend beyond the boundary of the wound. This is the distinction between keloids and hypertrophic scars. Though a keloid can appear immediately after a surgery or an injury it can sometimes also be caused due to a minor inflammation as in the case of a pimple on the chest. Burns may also trigger keloids occasionally.
There are several methods of keloids scarring treatment Cortisone injections are safe and yet not painful. However, this treatment may add to the reddishness of the keloid scar. Surgery is also one of the options. However, this is understood to be risky. Laser has been found to be effective in flattening keloid scars while also reducing the reddishness. This is a costly method and may require several sessions. Wearing sheets of silicone gel on the affected area over a period stretching for weeks or months have apparently had some success. Other treatments include cryo-therapy, that is, the use of liquid nitrogen to freeze keloids and radiation. Certain creams have also been used successfully in conjunction with silicone sheets for tackling keloid scars.
