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How to recognize the colloid scar: the signs and causes of disease, methods of treatment

kolloidnyj (keloidnyj) rubecColloid scar is a neoplasm resulting from proliferation of connective tissue of skin tumors. To treat it you need to start as early as possible. Only in this case there is the possibility of alleviating the patient's condition and a complete cure. As in the case of any other disease, serious and timely treatment are the key to maximizing results.

Causes

Despite the fact that the problem of colloid scars is studied medical science for a long time, to set their causes, and failed. However, you can specify some generalized conditions that can cause overgrowth of skin tissues. Distinguish keloids:

  1. Primary or spontaneous;
  2. Secondary.

Primary scars

Primary scarring occur for no apparent reason, and therefore are called spontaneous. Externally, the skin is no different, although for a long time the trauma can be well healed, but not cured until the end. Therefore, this name is very conditional. "Internal" causes of colloidal scars can be hormonal disturbances, especially on the part of the reproductive system, hypofunction of the adrenal glands, pregnancy, chronic infectious diseases (particularly tuberculosis). Their occurrence is often associated with a predisposition to seborrhea, in connection with localization mainly in the typical seborrheic areas: décolleté, neck, earlobes, scapular region, chin. There are results of medical observations, which indicate some genetic cause of the disease. This concerns mostly multiple keloids.

Secondary scarring

The secondary colloid scars are considered to be the development of posttraumatic complications or other skin problems. They often develop in women suffering from cosmetic problems. Especially dangerous in this sense, unprofessional wart. Planned the prevalence of the disease among young people — people under 30 years, which is also associated with age-related skin problems, as well as greater susceptibility of children and youth injuries. In children and adolescents keloids may affect virtually any area of skin tissue.

Wound healing is a complex process, which often lasts up to a year and a half and ends with the stationary appearance of the scar. If this process is disturbed by inflammation, suppuration, and considerable weakening of the immune system, the natural flow of the healing impaired. Doctors have not seen a single case of colloid scar two years after injury. Usually, it develops in the first six months and only 17% of cases in the first year after injury. In place of burns of varying degrees keloid occurs within 1-3 months. In the first stage of development they are a rapidly growing expansion, then remain in a stationary state in a tumor of a certain size. Final stabilization of the disease occurs within two years after the occurrence. Their characteristic feature is that they never ulcerate.

Signs of the disease

To be sure that the tumor on the skin is really a keloid scar, you need to consider the characteristics of sprawl. Neednotice that any prolonged redness of the skin resulting from injury, should be considered as potential colloid scar. It is especially dangerous if seen its expansion. The main symptoms of the disease are:

  • Purple-red color of the skin over the scar.
  • Painful, especially when pressure on him.
  • Itching or burning sensation.
  • The increase in size, as a result of overgrowth of the edges of the scar, they feature lesneven bands, which penetrate into healthy skin.

Primary keloids most often have the shape of stars, whereas the secondary is more linearly shaped, have a rounded or straight shape.

Be careful

Once seen these signs, you should immediately consult a doctor. In any case it is impossible:

  • Burn scar yourself fluid "Celandine";
  • Squeeze out any education in the affected area;
  • Visit the Solarium and is a long time in the sun;
  • Visit the baths and saunas;
  • To massage or RUB the scar.

Treatment

Treatment colloidal scars is a complex process and quite long. To the patient it is important to arm yourself with patience and get treatment to end, and not stop at the stage of healing, as after some time the growth may resume with renewed vigor.

Removal can be done as a traditional surgical method ("excision"), and the method of cryo - and laser therapy. Surgical removal is dangerous because, if the patient has a tendency to form keloids after surgery may develop swelling even larger.

Positive results were discovered through the use of methods of physiotherapy: rays Bukka, electrophoresis, magnetotherapy, as well as after physical therapy and special massage. Of the drugs used in the treatment colloidal scars, you can call dimexide, pyrogenic drugs, corticosteroids which are administered vnutriočagovogo.