How we best reduce the size of scars is an important question as scars will in most every case develop from any injuries and cuts we experience. Three groups of scars entail the full range of how they can appear on the skin. Atrophic, pitted scars leave the cut or injury indented. Raised, hypertrophic scars will grow above the injury or cut but not extending further than its borders. Then there are keloid scars. These raise above and beyond the borders of the injury or cut to sections of the skin that weren't originally injured. This is the trickiest sort of scar to cure for numerous reasons.

To start with the causes of keloid scars can vary from piercings to cuts to burns to inflammatory reactions caused by acne. Second they may only begin to grow after a good amount of time has elapsed since the original injury. The third and most dispiriting problem is cutting off the scar successfully via surgery can very easily cause a new keloid scar to develop over the surgery wound!

These features of this sort of scar call for a deeper investigation as to how to properly care for them.

Finding an Effective Treatment for Keloids

Doctors frequently use complementary procedures to accompany surgery that decrease that chances of a post keloid treatment recurrence. The primary techniques associated with this method are steroid injections and compression therapy.

Steroid injections can be used both before, during, or after the sugery with the outcome of flattening out the scar. Long-acting cortisone (steroid) shots will be injected on average one time a month with the difference in size apparent in 3 to 6 months time. A positive aspect is the cortisone reduces the size of the scar with very little of it getting into the bloodstream.

Compression bandages are believed to work from limiting oxygen to the scar which reduces the biological process that leads to the creation of keloid scars. They are specialized made garments that are made to be worn 24 hours a day and changed weekly for a period of six to eighteen months. They have a track record of successfully lowering the dimensions of the scar but the time and effort is very consuming.

How to Remove Keloids Using a Non-Surgical Cream