How can you treat a Keloid scar on ones arm?
Keloid is an overactive healing response to injury. What you can do depends on whether you have a general problem and all scars and injuries result in keloid scars, which is an inbuilt abnormality and is not particularly common, or whether it is just this scar which is ‘keloid’. You will know if you have the general problem, as other scars, piercings, injuries, operations etc will all have tended to produce the prounounced scars like that on your arm. These scars are not truely keloid, but hypertrophic due to the irritation of foreign substances like bits of gravel, or infection during the healing process. If the ‘keloid’ scar on your arm followed a contaminated injury, such as falling off a bicycle onto gravel etc, or a wound that just got infected, then the treatment can be quite simple. You need to have the scar excised properly in a sterile operating theatre, and then resewn with non-reactive stitiches such as prolene, or, if it is a very small scar it may well be able to be closed
