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What is the reason we get scabs when a scar is healing?
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Its natural: Your skin (epidermis) is a natural, porous barrier to the outside world. It keeps the fluid inside your body. When you scrape off skin, or have a break in the skin from an incision, the body will "leak" blood and serum out of the wound. The body tries to seal off the area with a scab. Wounds left to heal by scabbing typically look worse than a wound kept moist with an emollient during healing.
Answered 9/25/2016
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