Keloid Health Feed

A breast augmentation surgery can leave you with bigger and fuller breasts, but can also leave you with a few scars. These scars typically appear on the lower half of the breast, under the arm or around the areola. Scarring depends on the type of skin, as well as how well your skin heals after the surgery. Like any other, the scars caused by breasts augmentation surgery can be treated in a number of ways. Some of these are:

Silicone gel scar treatment: This involves applying silicone ge...more

Scars are referred to as marks left on the skin or body tissue, caused by an accident or injury. Scars are part of the natural healing process that takes place after an injury. When the white blood cells attack bacteria, they cause physical changes to the underlying skin cells around the area, thereby leading to the formation of a scar.

There are different types of scars, caused due to different factors. Some of the commonly occurring scars are:

1) Atrophic scars - These types ...more

Treatment of keloid is injection of corticosteroids in the keloid. If corticosteroids failed to give relief, the keloid is to be excised by scalpel.

•Apply a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar directly on the scar.
•Gently massage the area so that the apple cider vinegar can be absorbed fully by the scar.
•Allow the apple cider vinegar to dry up on its own.
•Once you are sure that it is dry, repeat the process.
•This can be done several times. Results can be seen after about a month of doing this process every day.

Hair loss due to androgenetic alopecia or pattern baldness is a condition that affects both men and women equally. Surgical hair transplantation is the only solution for restoring the lost hair in pattern baldness when medical hair restoration does not offer you a good hair re-growth. If you have well-defined and clearly established areas or patterns of baldness on the crown with healthy dense coverage of hair at the sides and the back of the head, you are probably suitable for a hair transplant...more

Quite strikingly, Acne can become a persistent cause of your worries, if left untreated. Acne not only harms you physically, but also damages your psychological health. Persistent acne can result in a pockmarked face, making you feel sullen and unsure of yourself. Acne refers to a condition where the skin perpetually develops stinging, red bumps. Red pimples might show on your face, shoulders, back or neck. The bumps usually take a lot of time to heal and they leave behind deep scars. And, in or...more

Hello Amith,
These treatments may work but your scars are very old. You can try them but you need to have patience. In homeopathy medicines like graphites, fluoric acid and silica work better, but strength needs to be decided based on other symptoms. As mentioned earlier it will take a time to respond.

Silastic sheets are silicone sheets which are used to cover the scars after application of the cream.
You will get it at any good pharmacy store

Dear
Happy New year to yu too.
You can try Soft laser Therapy to heal the keloid and reduce the scar This is therapeutic, not cosmetic. See lasertherapy. Co.in for details.
Regards.

Dear
Keloids are overgrowing scars that do not heal. If it is painful, ingrowing and spreading; you had better visit an oncologist to investigate further. A skin doctor may not help.
Regards.