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A scar will more times than not result from cuts, injuries, and surgery. 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.

Women and people with highly pigmented skin have the highest contraction rate for this type of scar. However keloids are not limited to just those subsets of people as anyone can get them. The sternum, upper arm, and upper back are the main regions where this type of scar is found. 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. 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.

Keloid Scar Treatment

One would hope that surgically removing them would solve the problem right away. Nonetheless there is more than a 50% chance a new keloid scar will form over the surgery wound that was inflicted in the effort to get rid of the original keloid scar. Laser treatments were hoped to have a lower recurrence rate but to no avail.

Even so paired along with some other treatment plans surgery can result with a lower possibility the reformation of the scar. Radiation therapy after the surgical removal of the scar is a treatment that could limit recurrence up to 70% according to certain studies. Having said that what could be the side effects associated with applying radiation can outweigh the treatment of what is a benign outgrowth of the skin. The feared outcome with this is malignancy.

Cryosurgery is said to help but its effect of leaving permanent hyperpigmentation limits its use with people with darker skin.

A natural and safe keloid treatment beneficial to use alone or complementing surgical removal is a skin cream containing Helix Aspersa Muller, or snail serum. Keloid scars are treated successfully by this cream for the reason that 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 initiating the skin's regenerative processes and orchestrating the biosynthesis and deposition of new collagen.