We live in a world where we have to take extreme care of ourselves; no matter how young or old you are, you surely want to stay fit, healthy and look great. Unless you are healthy, it is difficult for you to look beautiful and walk confidently on the roads. There are a few things that hamper your beauty and shake your confidence level. One of such things is keloids.

Let me explain this problem to you in a simple way – there are times when you are left with a few scars on your body; these scars take place due to different injuries, which are quite common. Keloids are areas of irregular fibrous tissues that take birth right on the scar or right on the injured place. They can either be smooth or hard, but are benign growths that are not life-taking or problematic to your health, but they have the ability to disrupt the beauty and health of your skin. Since the scar tissue grows excessively, a keloid tissue may not let you wear the kind of clothes that you wish to, especially if it grows in areas you have proudly been flaunting all this while.

Who goes through the problem of keloids?

It can be anyone who has been through an injury or has had a scar since quite some time. You are in the risk zone if you are pregnant, younger than 30 years old, Asian, Latino heritage or African.

There is something that you need to know – not all the treatments for keloids are effective. There are a few home remedies for this problem and then there are medicines as well that have worked for a few individuals, but there have also been cases in which neither home remedies nor medicines worked for the people with keloids.

What do keloids look like?

  • Keloids are generally lumpy and raised parts of the skin.
  • As the scar grows larger, keloids grow larger too and that’s what makes them look really scary.
  • Keloids are usually reddish because of the constant itchiness that the person feels when he has them.

A lot of discomfort and tenderness of the skin is felt, if you have keloids. No matter how hard you try to control the itchiness, you are just not able to because that’s how keloids make you feel. People with larger keloids feel extremely self-conscious while walking on the roads or meeting their friends.

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