Your skin is similar to smooth-surfaced fabric. When something gives it a strike, it will be crinkled or tore up and will never be able to restore its original form. Various kinds of injuries are the most common culprits of troubled skin scars. Rolling scars from severe acne problem, indented scars from accidents, linear scar from C-section procedure, and post-healing keloids are only some. While rolling scars from acne problem and some indented and C-section procedure scars are able to be removed by performing either regular subcision treatment or laser therapy, keloids are much more complicated.
How do keloids occur?
Keloids are the result of excessive, continuous production of skin natural collagen along with injury healing process. When your skin is wounded, your body will release collagen to heal and close the wound. The best scenario that it could be is that your skin is wounded, your body produces the right amount of natural collagen, the collagen closes the wound neatly and smoothly, leaving wounded area with similar pigment and even surface with its surrounding—the unaffected one. However, most of the time this scenario does not work perfectly. Your body indeed produces the natural collagen that is needed during healing process, yet not in exact amount that your wound need. Instead of stopping when your wound is healed, the natural collagen keeps dividing and forming cellular agents. As the result, there will be excessed collagen that will seem as swollen, elevated skin on your wounded area. This is what referred as keloids. Keloids are mostly painless, although several people have reddish keloids—instead of blackened, which they claim to be stingy and itchy.
Keloids are arbitrary, in that they can occur in any individual’s skin randomly. However, if you have darker skin, you are more likely to have one. If your parents or other people in your family have been experiencing keloids, you are in mostly in the same boat. Young people or teens are having the biggest risks of developing keloids. For instance, if you have accidents in your young age, keloids are more likely to occur after your wound is healed. However, there is no exact science to prove the exact reasons why keloids happen more to those dark-skinned individuals, such as African-Americans, Latino, and Asians.
Can keloids be removed?
Keloids seem to be complicated, and indeed they are. Some people wonder whether keloids are removable. Most people, although not all, are embarrassed for having keloids on their body skin, or to make it worse, face skin. Hence, they seek for any treatment that can remove those keloids from their precious body.
Keloids are removable, yet they are easily reoccur. Keloids can be removed through excision surgery. The procedure employs sterilized needle that is injected to the elevated skin to break the tissues. Within several regular excision treatment, keloids will be less visible and flattened. However, various treatments cannot permanently remove keloids from your body. Within certain period of time, they may come back infecting your skin.
How can I keep keloids from coming back?
Keloids are more likely to get back even after sophisticated treatment. If you realize that you are having bigger chance to have keloids, you should avoid any possible injuries, ear piercing, surgery, and other keloid-triggering actions. Preventive actions right after surgery, such as cortisone injection can be asked to minimize the effect of keloid. Should you decide to pierce your ear, you should wear pressing earrings to reduce the possibility of keloid occurrence. When healing wounds, you might also wear dressing bandage to press the beneath skin so that it will not swell. However, when you already have keloids and decide to have some treatment to clear them completely, you might want to try laser therapy or surgery. Those treatments are more likely to remove keloids longer. You can also freeze the scar in order to avoid keloid from re-growing. Silicone sheet that can be worn over the wound is also recommended as it might also inhibit keloids growth.
Whatever treatment you are choosing to get rid of the keloids, you have to remember that it could be expensive and non-permanent, because keloids are in fact, not completely removable.
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