how long should a rubber band be on your keloid?

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How long does it take to remove a keloid?

Answer 1

Keloid: If you're trying to flatten and smooth a keloid scar, a rubber band is ineffective. Applying topical silicone gel sheeting is the best treatment short of having the keloid surgically removed, injected with steroid and undergoing a short course of superficial radiation therapy.

Answer 2

Don't recommend: Keloid treatment is typically done with multiple modalities including compression, injection therapy, surgical resection, laser treatment and radiation.

Answer 3

Rubber band?: Why is it on there at all? Keloids can be injected with steroids or removed formally a a Dermatologist if need be.

Answer 4

Grows: If you manipulate a keloid it could grow larger or become infected.

Answer 5

Keloid: It can be infected. If you keep picking on it- it can grow bigger. So , stop picking your keloid.

Answer 6

Keloid Rx: The safest approach is silicone tape/gel (myscaraway, from walgreens/online), steroid/bleomycin injections immunosuppressant/chemotherapyagent) only in pro hands, electron-beam radiotherapy, almost never excision unless radiotherapy can be guaranteed within 24hr after excision. Be very careful or it will be made worse by cutting it! close follow up for 2yrs+ to monitor for recurrence essential!

Answer 7

Don't!!!: Keloids don't like to be messed with! see a plastic surgeon to talk about removal!

Answer 8

Keloid therapy: Keloids are abnormal scar formation beyond the area of injury. As for a "cure", very doubtful since there is a genetic predisposition to their occurrence. Treatment options are pressure, steroid injections, excision, and radiation, or a combination of these. Seek in person evaluations with a boarded plastic surgeon. Hope this has helped.

Answer 9

Not really: Keloid scars are defined as growth of scar tissue outside of the bounds of the original scar. Most people think an ugly scar is a keloid, but it really has to be a mass growing from the scar. Even still, the best treatment and most success i've had with these is by surgically removing them, injecting steroids at the time of surgery, and radiation therapy immediately after closure.

Answer 10

Treatment available: Keloid scars can be avoided with silicone sheeting and steroid injections. Once a keloid has already been established it can be excised and treated with subsequent steroid injections or low-dose radiation. Excision alone usually results in recurrence of the kulik.

Answer 11

Technically no but: Careful removal with plastic surgical technique and post op low dose radiation usually keeps them controlled.

Answer 12

Not exactly: By definition, keloids have a high recurrence rate and our goal is usually to control them or make them smaller. They are rarely cured.

Answer 13

No cure for keloids: Keloids are tumors of scar that an be controlled but probably not "cured". Treatments to control keloids include injections with steroids and chemotherapeutic drugs, surgery to remove the keloid, and in less severe cases topical application of silicone sheets. Keloids are most common in the earlobes and these can be controlled with surgery if large followed by pressure earrings.

Answer 14

Improve not remove: While a variety of treatments can be used for keloid , they will generally only improve and not remove the scar or at least replace it with a smaller scar. This includes excision, revision, pressure therapy, steroid injections, 5-fu injections, silicone feel sheeting, radiation therapy, and more.

Answer 15

Yes: Yes, aggressive scar formation is genetic...Although not absolute, the risk is increased.

Answer 16

Can be: Keloids can be hereditary. Keloids can usually be treated, but the earlier you seek treatment the better the out come will be. Seek a plastic surgeon with experience in this area. Topical creams or injections can be beneficial. Ear piercings are a common cause of keloids...If you are prone to keloids, it is best to not pierce your ears. If you must, only use surgical steel or 24k gold posts.

Answer 17

Predictable: The darker one's skin color, the more the tendency toward keloid formation increases. Keloids are more common (but not inevitable) in asians, latinos, dark-skinned indians, and africans. There is definitely also a hereditary component.

Answer 18

Yes: The exact genetics is not known but people who make keloids often have children who make keloids. It is possible to have a parent who is keloid-prone and not be keloid-prone yourself, however.

Answer 19

Yes: Clearly keloids have greater tendency to occur in darker skinned races and to that degree they do have a genetic tendency.

Answer 20

A really angry scar: A keloid is formed when a a healing wound becomes inflamed and thickens. A keloid typically rises above and can be felt beneath the skin, as well. Treatment options include observation to see if they subside eventually, use of teflon film to cover lesions to try to flatten them, cortisone injections to cause atrophy, and excision. The concern with excision is that the lesion may return.

Answer 21

Abnormal Scars: Keloids are somewhere between scars and tumors. They are in response to injury like a scar, but the injury can be minor, and the scar quite pronounced. Unlike hypertrophic scars, keloids grow into the skin outside the area of injury, like a tumor. Keloids are not cancer, but there are differences between what is happening in a keloids and normal or even a hypertrophic scar. Removal depends...

Answer 22

Not really: Folks of African descent tend to form keloids more readily than other folks, but it's famously unpredictable. Why one individual gets them and another doesn't, and why one injury forms keloids and the next doesn't are minor mysteries of medicine.

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