Can Keloids Be Removed? This Is The Answer According To The Experts

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JAKARTA - The wound was unexpected. It can happen when you are busy in the kitchen, hit something sharp while cleaning the house, scratched by nail clippers, plants, sharp edges of paper and so on. Wounds usually leave scars. Dark skin or keloids appear. Can all this be removed?

When our skin is injured, our fibroblast tissue or also known as scar tissue will cover the wound to repair and protect the injury. In some cases, the extra scar tissue in the wound will grow on its own to form a smooth, hard growth and a keloid.

If that happens, the keloid tissue can be wider than the actual wound. It is true that keloids are not harmful to our health, but they can cause cosmetic confidence problems in us.

Keloids occur in acne scars, burns, smallpox scars, surgical scars and so on. Signs of a keloid include localized pink areas, skin that is rough or jagged and usually raised, areas that continue to grow in size with scar tissue over time and patches of itchy skin.

There is also a so-called hypertrophic scar, what is it? If you have a flat sore that is pink to brown in color, it is called a hypertrophic wound. This wound will go away on its own. The shape is flat and does not protrude.

Hypertrophic scars occur in both women and men, and are usually caused by some form of physical or chemical injury, such as piercings or the use of strong fragrances. At first, hypertrophic scars are itchy and painful, but the symptoms subside as the skin heals.

How to get rid of hypertrophic scars and keloids at home, according to Dr. Juliana Yu, MD.H NH?

- Often do massage with pressure movements. This can weaken the scar tissue and improve the appearance of the scar.

- Use crushed garlic and applied to the scar. Garlic contains volatile oil in the form of sulfur compounds such as allicin, allisatin, saponins, vitamins A, B6, C and E as well as other minerals such as selenium and germanium.

- Use a retinoid cream. Retinoid creams are derivatives of vitamin A or retinol. This cream can be used as an option to reduce the protrusion that occurs due to wounds that can become keloids.

- Use calendula oil which can provide gentle properties on rough skin and accelerate the growth of new cells in damaged skin tissue. Good luck !