Question: Why do some scars leave the skin over time and some never go away?
I am curious about this question because I have several scars that I thought would never go away from a car accident, however all of them did. I have one scar though that never went away. I’m curious why certain ones are able to leave the skin and others are not. This connects to our topic in class about the layers of this skin. The epidermis and dermis, my first thought is that if it is a deeper cut that pierces through the dermis is when the scars may need longer time to heal or are never able to fully heal again.
After researching, I was able to come across a few explanations on scaring. Scarring occurs from scabbing. After a scab falls off, the scar is smaller
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A hypertrophic scar occurs within the boundaries of the wound. Keloid scars form into pervious regular tissue. It was also stated that keloid scars can be more prominent in other from birth, making scaring heal a little longer than other people. These differences explain why some scars are longer lasting as well.
If two parts of the wound are far away from each other, this will cause the wound to heal a lot longer. Stitches and staples are used on certain wounds as well to make the scarring process heal faster as well. Wounds that are cleaned out quick are able to heal faster as well. I found in my research that being in car accidents can increase your chance of a permanent scar because all of the dirt and bacteria can reopen the wound.
Overall, the main idea to why some scars go away and others don’t is how you take care and treat the wound. A scar in all actuality is unorganized collagen in the dermis layer of the skin, making it harder to heal. That is why if you clean, rub, and protect your scar and scab it should be able to heal a lot faster and quicker than other wounds. If the wound is not treated properly, causing the scab to dry out of get picked at it most likely lead to scarring. The most important thing to do is properly take care of scarring and to me that makes perfect sense why some of my scars have healing just
Acne damages the skin. The bacteria and oil cause damage to the pores, skin, and underlying tissue. In response, the body sends white blood cells and other treatment molecules called collagen to the area in an attempt to heal the damaged tissues. Most acne scars only affect the outer layers of skin. Depending on how much collagen one’s body produces affects the scar type, if the scars are depressed the body does not produce enough collagen, if the scars are raised the body produced too much collagen (American Association of Dermatology 2011).
There are certainly complications to assumptions of how scars are used as a means of communication in the novel, Beloved. The character named Beloved has her own distinct scars that bear significance in the story. Her scars are distinct not only in their origins, but also in their meaning, and create a point of diversion from the traditional pattern established by the role of scars in the lives of other characters. The scratches on her forehead and the cut across her neck were not made by a white oppressor, but instead by her own mother, Sethe. Sethe kills her own daughter in a fit of anxiety, rather than to have her children taken away by the slave owners which tracked her down following her escape. These markings tell Beloved's story, how her own mother sawed away at the baby girl's tiny neck, her fingernails clawing into her forehead. In the end, this is the way in which Sethe can identify the returned from the dead Beloved (now an adult) as well. These scars serve as a reminder of everything Beloved had gone through. They become a symbo...
The epidermis, which is the outer layer of the skin, is made up of four to five layers in some parts (Shier, Butler, & Lewis, 2009). In the majority of the areas, just four layers can be differentiated: the stratum basale, stratum spinosum, stratum granulosum, and stratum corneum (p.119). Another layer is the stratum lucidum which can be found in the thicker part of the skin of the palms and ...
Later on he went to learn the truth about this parents and the background of the scar. When he enters the wizard world, everybody notices his scar. He becomes insecure about his scar and tries to hide it, along with his famous identity. Harry Potter's lightning shaped scar separates him from all of the magicians in the wizard world, it symbolizes power and authority. He is the chosen one out of all the wizards. This made his an immediate target for most of the other skeptical characters in the literary work. Also in order for Harry to do what he was intended to he had to learn and understand his importance in the wizard world, long with the narrative. Blemishes like scars on a character, can create a divergence that the character has to come to an understanding
Many people have tattoos and never actually understood how tattoos last. Tattoos are permanent. A needle goes into the skin at rate of hundreds of vibrations a minute. The needle goes through the top layer of the skin, which is called the epidermis, and goes deeper into the skin to the dermis. The ink particles are huge for the white cells to remove. The dermis is balanced so the ink will last forever. Fading in the tattoo may occur as you grow older, but to remove a tattoo, you need to have a chemical peel, dermabrasion, or a laser procedure, which will take years to disappear.
People not only know the identity of someone by knowing their scars, but each scar tells a story of what a person has gone through. Sethe's back and the scars caused by her beating are important in the story in terms of telling a story of what she's been through, providing a way in which she and some of the other characters may connect. For example, Paul D learns more about Sethe and is able to connect with her through her scars. When Sethe first attempts to explain to Paul D what had happened to her on pages 16-7, he has trouble understanding the true...
MEBO Scar ointment was found to producesignificantly better outcomes from the perspective of aestheticsin comparison to the control group. Overall, itching relief was observed in 97.5% patients; texture was normal in 50% and soft in 47.5%; scar shrinkage in 97.5%; skin color was close to normal in 75% and light in 22.5% (p<0.001, for all parameters) (Table 4). In this study ,there was no adverse effect or allergy were recorded in test
In the book " Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes", Sarah's classmates do choose to bypass or ignore her scars. I believe the reason why people arnt very sympathetic or aknoledge the suffering of others is because they have their own scars whenther they are on the inside or out. I also think they ignore people who are suffering because they can be afaid and to scared to be invole, or in Mark Brittian's perspective, "that a person that has scars like Sarah Bynes and a person with few scars like Mark both have an equal life and that they arew both sacred." I think that Mark, Jody and Eric all have inward scars. Marks scar is that he feels a lot of pressure and is always trying to perform. Jody's scar is that she was forced by Mark to get an abortion
"IN the folk-tale told about the husband who comes home after years of absence, so changed by time and Fortune's hard usage that he must adduce proof after proof of his identity before his wife will admit his claim, the first Sign to be exhibited is the scar. This he reveals first to an aged dame, his old nurse, perhaps the only woman then alive in the world who was familiar with its appearance and history. For naturally the first token must not be of a kind so intimate and convincing as to make the wife's unreadiness to respond to it appear capricious and unreasonable. To this extent Homer has adopted the ancient tale"(questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5372374).
Every human being on earth accumulates scars of this nature. From errors made in the past come forth blemishes on the soul that serve as permanent reminders of one’s mistakes, and the scars provide maps to roads not to be taken again.
Sometimes it leaves red raw scars that will eventually fade into silver marks- blemishes that will never leave you. Someday the memories will be in loud colour but sometimes you might remember it in muted black and white –it doesn’t matter what shade the memories are; you will never forget.
“Leave it alone, it will go away” is the instructions doctors specify to patients and parents of children with a vascular birthmark (“Vascular Birthmarks”). According to research, “It is estimated that approximately 10% of births have a vascular birthmark – that’s about 400,000 children per year in the United States alone” (“Vascular Birthmarks”). The two main types of vascular birthmarks are Hemangiomas, a non-cancerous tumor of skin composed of abnormal lymph vessels, and Malformations, an inborn growth of skin containing arteries, capillaries, veins, or lymphatic vessels. It is no longer necessary for patients to suffer through emotional and physical pain while waiting for their lesion to disappear, because today the medical field has advanced its technology and clinical experiences in order to manage vascular birthmarks. However, there is not a recommendation treatment that fits any birthmark; the treatment choice depends on the degree of disfigurement, location, type, and severity (“Birthmarks”). Vascular birthmarks, the benign skin growths comprised of rapidly growing or poorly formed blood vessels or lymph vessels, have potentially life threatening and emotional effects that can often be corrected by steroid therapy, laser treatment, and surgical removal.
(A)Wound healing is a biological process occurring in the human body. In this lecture we had discussed about both acute and chronic wounds. An acute wound is an injury to the skin that occurs suddenly rather than over time. It heals at a predictable and expected rate according to the normal wound healing process. The chronic wounds do not heal in an orderly set of stages and in a predictable amount of time the way most wounds do.
In conclusion, psoriasis, although not usually deadly, is a very serious disease. It can leave permanent scaring on the skin. Almost worse than physical scaring is the emotional effect of the disease. People with psoriasis can suffer from very low self confidence, as well as depression and anger.
Stretch marks, are a type of scar resulting from an injury to the skin that has restored in a manner of missing the full range of skin components. This scarring is also known as “partial tearing” of the skin and occurs when the skin is being stretched beyond its ability. Often stretch marks will have an appearance of a jagged look caused by improper alignment of skin throughout the healing process. The tearing process of stretch marks usually do not occur until the last three months of pregnancy because of skin being stretched to quickly and causes elastic fibers to break. After the mother has her baby or certain weight has been lost, that’s when the skin will show stretch marks along the abdomen, thighs, arms, or