Helps flatten and soften raised scars
Steroid injections work to break down excess collagen, which can help keloid and hypertrophic scars flatten and soften over a course of treatment.
What is a Keloid Scar?
A keloid scar forms when the skin produces too much collagen while healing from a cut, burn, piercing, surgical wound or bout of acne.
Instead of settling on the level of the surrounding skin, the scar tissue keeps growing beyond the edges of the original wound. They typically look like raised firm bumps that are pink, red or darker than your normal skin tone.
Hypertrophic scars are often confused with keloids, and it’s easy to see why. Both are raised, can be red or itchy, and develop from excess collagen during the healing process. The difference is that a hypertrophic scar stays within the boundaries of the original injury – keloid scars grow beyond it and can keep growing for months or years.
Keloid scars can form anywhere on the body, but they’re seen most often on areas where the skin is under more tension, like the chest, shoulders, earlobes and jawline.
Keloid formation is also more common in darker skin types, and if you’ve had a keloid scar before, you’re at higher risk of forming another one after a new skin injury.
