scar treatment

Have you ever had a scar grow within a scar?  Sometimes when you have a scar that keeps getting repeatedly traumatized it will form a keloid.  Areas where there is pimples, skin injury, burn, or insect bites could form keloids.  An area like this that becomes infected and forms pus underneath can be keloids.  The from as hard dark matter or is a big shiny bump.  Keloids can be very painful.  They are benign and can become even larger that the spot of the orginal wound.  these larger keloids can be accompanied by sharp pain and impair movement especially if they are over a joint.

The problem with a keloid is that they formed from an area being over traumatized.  So, treating them without making them worse can be difficult.

Keloids do not go away by themselves, so not treating them is not an option.

Surgury is probably not a good idea because the area of the sugury might eventually scar and create another keloid.

If you start getting keloids it is not a good idea to get elective piercings.

Keloids commonly appear on the upper backs, upper arms, shoulders, and chest.

As far as keloids are concerned, in my opinion, prevention is key because current methods of treating keloids are often not completely successful and sometimes have no affect at all.

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