How to Relieve the Painful and Itchy Symptoms of Scarring

Keloid is a manifestation of abnormal wound healing and excessive skin fibrosis. Clinically, it is characterized by persistent growth beyond the scope of the initial wound, involving the surrounding normal skin and subcutaneous tissues, and presenting as a hard, tough, and/or congested nodular, striated, flaky, or webbed mass of tissue that rises above the surface of the skin. Many patients with scars have painful and itchy symptoms, especially in the summer scars are more difficult. So how to relieve the pain and itching of scars? 1, ordinary life, we can eat less seafood hair and other stimulating food, try to use cotton loose clothing, in order to reduce the stimulation of the scar bumps, reduce the frequency of symptoms of pain and itching. 2, when the keloid appeared pain and itching symptoms, must not directly scratch with your hands, due to the scar surface tissue is thin, excessive scratching will lead to keloid breakage, you can pat the itchy parts through the clothing, to alleviate the pain and itching symptoms, to avoid accidentally scratching and irritating the scar. 3.When the scars appear painful and itchy symptoms, you can use warm or cool water to wash the scars, or cold compress (each time not more than 5 minutes) to reduce the temperature of the skin, can temporarily relieve the painful and itchy symptoms. 4, in the case of suitable for surgery, can be through the local excision of scar lesions, so as to achieve the purpose of temporary relief of pain and itching symptoms. However, a single surgical excision cannot completely solve the problem of itchy scars, and comprehensive treatment is still needed to repair the scars. A common method is to conduct radiotherapy after surgical excision, which greatly reduces the possibility of recurrence.