Damage to the skin after surgery, cuts, burns, and also after certain diseases ends in a scar. And there is no miraculous way to get rid of it. However, you can make it less visible.
Freshscaris always red. It takes about a year for complete healing. The wound forms almost immediately within the wound that seals granulation tissue from the inside. In order for the wound to heal well, the newly formed cells, the so-called the myofibroblasts should line up in the right order. They are helped by collagen, which in such situations our body produces much more than usual. The healed scar on the wound is white and theskincovering it is slightly shiny. If an infection occurs, the skin is stretched at the site of an injury or another cut, a clear thickening appears on the cut line, the so-called scar overgrown. It is a disfiguring, deep red bulge in the skin that is painful on pressure. In order to protect ourselves from this, we must properly care for each wound.
Scar care: softening ointments and massage
SlightInjuryWhether a scratch is enough to prevent contamination. If you have had thyroid or abdominal surgery or had a caesarean section, you should carefully care for the scar. After removing the postoperative sutures, soften it with baby oil once a day. Check with your doctor when to start gentle massages. With small circular movements, massage the scar, lightly pressing your fingers against it. Use a scar ointment or gel. You can get many drugs in pharmacies, e.g. cepan, contractubex, alcepalan, zeraderm. After 3 months, the scar will become elastic and less visible. You should not sunbathe it for a year, also in the solarium. Doctors recommend taking 300 mg of vit. C a day. Accelerates wound healing and the production of collagen in the skin. A badly sutured wound or scar damaged during healing may require surgery. This is how you deal with visible overgrown scars. After another operation, a scar also remains, but it is less pronounced.
Burn scars: Clothed massage
If overgrown or burn scars have a large area, they are reduced not only by surgery. The so-called extensive press therapy ,i.e. pressure. Sicka special suit is then sewn to cover the damaged skin. The fabric covers the body like foil, but the skin can breathe. The costume is worn day and night for at least 3 months. During the day, you can only take it off for half an hour to take a bath and wash your costume. After wringing it out in a towel, it is dry. Most of even very large scars flatten, turn pale and in color resemble he althy skin.
Remedy for acne scars
Juvenile acne is not always just a memory of adolescence. If we squeezed out purulent pimples, we did not consult a dermatologist or there was a general skin infection on the face, we have deep, red or bluish furrows. You can get rid of them with the help of a plastic surgeon. The physician, affected by the disease, will evaporate the epidermis into carbon dioxide using a laser. The procedure is performed under anesthesia. Removing the epidermis from all over the face leaves a large wound that can easily become infected. To protect yourself from infection, you need to take an antibiotic and heviran - an antiviral drug that will protect you from cold sores. Should it occur, it will spread over the entire face in no time, and healing will be much more difficult. After the epidermis has evaporated, a mask made of transparent, perforated foil resembling a fine mesh is put on the face. For a week, it is to replace the epidermis, because this is how much the skin needs to produce a new and smooth one. The face is very red and swollen. Serum fluid is oozed from the operated sites, which can only be wiped off with a sterile gauze pad. The skin must not be washed with anything or scratched, although it is very itchy. Thanks to the mesh mask, scabs are not formed. After a week, the surgeon gently removes it and carefully rubs the skin with a moisturizing ointment. Later, before leaving the house, regardless of the weather, you need to lubricate your face with sunscreen. After two or three months, the skin is smooth and its normal appearance returns. After just one treatment, shallow scars even out and deep scars become less visible. You can completely get rid of them by repeating the treatment after 2 years. The effects are seen more quickly in people with fair skin. On darker skin, redness lasts longer, and brownish discoloration may appear, which disappears under the influence of appropriate creams. Removal of acne scars costs 5.5 thousand. PLN.
ImportantTo reduce extensive but shallow scars, no matter how they arose, chemical peels or the so-called dermabrasion - mechanical abrasion of the epidermis. These are quite brutal procedures and have to be repeated to get visible results. The epidermis is removed up todermis, i.e. tissue that can regenerate. A less invasive procedure than traditional dermabrasion is the so-called microdermabrasion, in which the epidermis is rubbed off with the use of tiny aluminum hydroxide crystals thrown under pressure from a special device directly onto the skin. The stream of crystals visibly rubs and flattens it.
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