Health Tips

1. Massage method: Please use your palm to massage the scars, three times a day, every 5-10 minutes. This method is best for the wound which just scab off.

2. Ginger friction method: Please use ginger to gently graze at the scars so as to inhibit the growth of granulation tissue.

3. Vitamin E smear method: Vitamin E can penetrate into the internal skin and play its role in emollients and at the same time, vitamin E can maintain skin elasticity. However, people are not very familiar with the effectiveness of vitamin E on eliminating the scar. To tear the Vitamin E capsules and daub its liquid on the scar, gently massage the scars for 5-10 minutes, twice a day. On the regular basis, it would have a better effect.

4. Vitamin C smear method: vitamin C has the beauty efficacy, to daub vitamin C on the dark skin to white scar up, so that the scar can be consistent with the surrounding healthy skin color.

5. Lavender essential oil smear method: The beauty effectiveness of lavender is always fantastic, and lavender essential oil effect on scar has been widely recognized. But the lavender essential oil has no obvious effect on new scar or over 8 years old, which is better for one to two-year scars. Additionally, please take care to use essential oil; please not touch the skin without scars when using the lavender essential oil.

However, we can judge it from two aspects:

If the injury is serious and the scar is deep, the scars are sure to be left. You shall only to control the infection and take the cosmetology means to reduce the scar.

If the injury is not serious and you are not an idiosyncratic man, you shall take care about your diet. Please do not drink or eat spicy foods. You shall eat more fish, pig skin with full of collagen food; moreover, the fish soup or pettitoes soup is quite help for the healing and regeneration of the wound.

Scar is the inevitable result after the wound healing. As to the different reasons, such as: race, age, injured parts, physical status and other factors, the scars are different. However, the scar produces different effects to patient’s life and work, so it needs the treatment. The main treatment methods show as follows:
　　
1. Non-surgical therapy: Some scars needn’t surgery or before the surgery, please apply compression therapy, medication, radiotherapy and other treatment methods.

2. Skin Dermabrasion (Surfacing): To the scar with soft and smooth surface, please use machine profile to restore skin color better and realize the treatment goal.

3. Scar loose partial-shaped surgery: As to the cord and webbed scar with small tension, the scar can be removed firstly, and then, to use well skin tissue forming skin flap, and to repair scar skin defect by cross-transposition.

4. Scar removal free skin grafting: Larger hypertrophic scars could be removed from the body by surgery, and cut free skin graft from normal parts to the wound scar so as to repair the wound and restore the functions of the body.

5. Skin expansion trace: To the skin with larger defect, the skin can not directly joint, so it could use skin flap transfer, skin grafting and other methods to repair.
　　　　
6. Tissue expander method: For some of the joints or facial scar contracture, you could use skin tissue expander to repair; this method is created in recent years.

In short, there are a lot of scar treatment methods with better efficacy. But treatment is a systematic project, different scars need different methods. The patient shall cooperate closely with doctors and will get good effect after a period of time.