What are keloids?

They're like benign growths of extra skin. I used to get tiny ones for a couple weeks after I got a new piercing. Apparently burn victims get them really badly. Google image search it.

scars that dont turn off growth when they've finished (or should have finished) healing a wound.

Hypertrophic scars-scars which have formed out of proportion.

smooth, pink, raised, hard growths on the skin produced by over production of collagen that form over healed wounds

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How do I stop my keloids from growing. It's near the action areas.?

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Is there a way that keloids can remove?

Have your doctor look at it--it's not really keloid but when you were immunized and I have mine on my leg, it left a funny type of scarring--see if your doc sees anything wrong with it and if ...

What's more effective for keloids, elicina or zeraderm scar gel?

My daughter has a keloid scar. We tried lots of things, including steyroid injections and nothing worked. Just made it worse. The scar keeps healing itself everytime you try to fix it. Just let...

Is there any new medical, not homeopathic, solutions to removing or reducing Keloids?

Keloids often require no treatment. Keloids may be reduced in size by freezing (cryotherapy), external pressure, corticosteroid injections, laser treatments, radiation, or surgical removal. It is n...

How do you get keloids?

Keloids are scar tissue....a wound will "heal" over and over again....and the keloid grows. I had them on my ears (from ear piercings)....a plastic surgeon can remove them...but sometime...

Wny do scars and keloids on the skin itch so bad from time to time?

The oil that naturally comes from skin is disrupted in a scar or keloids. So it dries out and itches.

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Any home remedy for keloids. i have big kiloid on my arm already 4 yrs now?

There is no satisfactory treatment for keloids. Some doctors have had success injecting keloids with bleomycin an anticancer drug. The best treatment is to inject a long-acting cortisone into t...

How do I get Keloids off my skin or at least make it better looking?

Suggest seeing a surgeon who performs various types of laser surgury. Laser can work miracles on treating and removing various types of skin imperfections and marks/bumps/veins/ etc. Expensive ho...