How Can Scar Creams Benefit The Healing of My Injuries?
There are many scar healing creams, silicone gels and ointments, made of vitamins, botanical extracts, and natural ingredients that are designed to improve the healing of scars, help in scar reduction and make scars less noticeable. Not all scar creams are alike though. Healing of injuries is a complex process that entails intricately and coordinated degree of orchestration that occurs between the many cells, organs and products of the immune system that do the masterful job of maintaining our biological, health-full integrity. An Inflammatory Phase Platelets and inflammatory cells are the first to arrive at the site of injury and provide key functions and “signals” needed for the influx of connective tissue cells and a new blood supply. This phase is named inflammatory phase. The signs have been well recognized since ancient times: redness, heat, swelling and pain. The presence of wound macrophages is a marker that the inflammatory phase is nearing the end and a proliferative phase is
