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Treating Lasting Burn ScarsQuestion by Mother and Son (Anonymous) on 12/18/2011
My leg has become almost as pretty as before the burns, but my son now has some ugly scars. I would think you'd call them hypertrophic, but maybe it's called keloid I found the Earthclinic website and spent days to read all about it, but I still don't know what to do best. Until now I'm treating his scars twice a day with silicon-gel, and/or pure vitamine E oil ( I always let him decide). Sadly it looks like it's getting worse instead of better. Yesterday I started with pure vinegar on the scars every 30 min. for 6 times, and today we are doing the same. It seems like it stops the itching and maybe the color is a little lighter because of it. My question for you is : do you think these are keloids or hypertrophic scars
What would you think would be the best treatment for him, to make the scars somewhat less ugly... or even better It would be great if you are able to respond to my question; i understand that you are a busy man, but luckily enough I can be really patient... so I'm looking forward for your answer somewhere in time. Thanks for doing the things you do, I love you already!
Replied by Ted (Bangkok, Thailand) on 01/12/2012
The problem about this formulation is if you can get the aloe vera oil, which is very hard to obtain in United States, so if you cannot get, you can always used Mebo, which is used to treat burn victims as they have the beta sitosterol, or you can just get the aloe vera juice, which works less effectively but works too. The vaseline is the prime treatment to prevent bacteria or virus from infection and this is preferred to be used but I generally don't use the sunflower oil or as hemp oil has all the nutrition in proper proportion for the human health, what's missing is the antioxidants such as vitamin E and perhaps vitamin C, such as ascorbyl palmitate, but I generally don't used that either. In my opinion I think that some keloids are excess fibrinogen and it may be removed mostly by applying the DMSO mixed with lavender oil (just a 1%). would dissolved it. The itchiness may be a fungus and you can try tannic acid to the area with water may help some.
Ted
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