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Scars can embarrass people and make them self-conscious. Even worse, scar tissue can also cause pain, itch, and may restrict movement of joints and ligaments. Therefore it is important to treat them as well as possible.
Poor advice about scar treatment is widespread. Not only among private persons but among experts such as dermatologists as [...]
Scar tissue is the fibrous connective tissue that’s usually formed after an injury such as a cut, incision, or burn has occurred.
It may also appear following skin conditions such as ulcers, acne, or psoriasis, or insect bites. Except for very mild lesions most wounds will scar to some extent. Scarring can occur on [...]
Hypertrophic scars are raised, darkened, rigid, nodular lesions which only occur in humans.
In addition to cosmetic concern, these scars may cause pain, itch, contractures, and other functional impairments.
Causes
They are commonly caused by burns, wound closure with excess tension, wound infection, delayed wound healing, hypoxia (deprivation of adequate oxygen supply), or other skin [...]
Vitamin C, also known as L-ascorbic acid, is important to the wound healing process. It contributes two important functions to healing.
First, it is a powerful antioxidant that helps reduce oxygen free-radicals in a healing wound. And second, it’s also a major stimulus for the building of new collagen, which promotes better tissue repair and [...]
Hyperpigmentation, What is it?
The color of a person’s skin is referred to as pigmentation. The substance in the body that controls pigmentation is called melanin. Under normal conditions within the human body, melanin is produced at a level to produce even skin pigmentation. Hyperpigmentation occurs when an excess level of melanin is produced which [...]
