One of the reasons people turn to keloid scar treatment creams and gels is that many of the traditional medical techniques for scar removal are too risky. Often, surgery to excise keloid tissue merely results in greater, more serious scarring. Few doctors recommend surgery alone for keloid scars. They simply cannot predict the outcome.
Nothing makes a keloid scar go away. There is no cure for the piled up, red, painful heaped up scar tissue. Keloids are notoriously difficult to treat, and commonly come back after treatment and appear at any wound site. People who have a family history of keloids have a higher rate of recurrence after treatment.
The goal becomes changing the appearance of the keloid, and here is where silicone keloid scar treatments become invaluable.
•Silicone creams are sold over the counter. These can reduce pain, swelling and itching. They usually take three months or more to work, and are best used within a month of the initial wound treatment.
•An older technique was to apply a silicone keloid scar treatment to an area, then cover it with a pad or a dressing that presses down on the area. This sometimes aided in flattening the scar and was effective in reducing growth.
•Silicone in gel or cream form replaces self adhesive silicone sheets, which won’t always stay on joints and flexible body parts. The point is to keep an infection protective layer over the scar, while the active ingredient silicone helps the scar heal.
Research at the University of Miami compared silicone gel treatments for keloid scarring, with silicone sheets. Both were shown to be effective. Silicone gels are the newer, more flexible, and are an equally effective method developed specifically for treating this type of scarring.
Silicone creams and gels also can be massaged into a scar. Massage deepens the delivery of silicone, and can break up tough scar fiber.
You can get cortisone shots (steroids) into keloids, and sometimes freezing (cryosurgery) helps. Interestingly, these treatments are often accompanied by silicone gel therapy. Doctors like to combine the effectiveness of silicone with these other treatments.
Research involves trying to “bridge the gap” between the laboratory and the skin clinic. While it could be argued that bridge has been shown to favor silicone treatments, there is little agreement about therapy beyond topical creams and gels. The “gap” is between all of the research and the lack of more treatment options.
Keloids are an abnormal response to a wound. Any wound leaves a scar. Why some bodies over correct the amount of replacement tissue is the mystery. Much research is centered on getting at the exact process of normal and abnormal scar formation. This may lead to prevention.
Successful management has involved silicone therapy since the 1980’s.
•One in ten people is prone to keloid scarring and it runs in a family.
•Darkly pigmented people are 15 times more likely to form this type of wound.
•Men and women are equally affected.
This list closely matches the list of people who can benefit from using a silicone scar treatment.
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