Hypopigmentation scarring is characterised by flat pigmentless areas of the skin. Normally with inflammation, and minor skin damage melanocytes within the skin are triggered to produce pigment. This leaves dark ‘hyper’pigmented scars, as you would normally see with acne, or minorly inflamed insect bites. The brownish scars will fade, and can be lessened with essential oils treatments and various enzymes to speed up the process of healing, and the rate of exfoliation of the pigment rich layers.

Occasionally, as with lesions on the skin, the dry damaged skin containing melanin rich light blocking agents lifts or peels away, to reveal pigmentless new skin. This does not necessarily mean you are suffering with hypopigmentation. Usually the newly recovered skin will take some exposure to sunlight before the melanocytes under the skin start to blend it’s appearance with the surrounding skin.

Unfortunately, for those inflamed marks in the skin which have sustained deeper vascular damage, the melanocytes loose their ability to match the surrounding skin pigment altogether. Where the skin might heal without the fibrous scar tissue, it will just remain white and uncoloured after the dry skin or scab has peeled away. Deep and severe acne can cause hypopigmentation scars. The characteristic spattering of small white colourless marks in the skin are caused by areas of the skin which have suffered rashes, bites, and inflamation due to many common problems. One of the main causes of hypopigmentation scarring is dry skin leaving scars on the legs and arms.

There are many causes of dry skin, and to prevent hypopigmentation scarring those issues should be addressed first. Even while the skin is new and healing it will often remain dry and irritable, exacerbating the susceptability to inflammation. Various forms of dermatitis, including eczema, fungal conditions, contact allergy including bites, and hives, are the main contributors to hypopigmented scars on the legs and arms. However, all is not lost, there is something you can do about these strange little white discs on the skin. In most cases, rubbing a little olive oil into dry skin on the legs and arms to aid it’s return to a natural resiliance is a safe and well known method.

What is little known though, is an old traditional chinese herbal medicine, ginger. Yes, that common old ginger root you see in the supermarkets. Just cut a fresh slice of ginger root and rub it’s moist juice over the skin two or three times a day. Cut a fresh slice each time you do it, and don’t rub the skin too hard, you don’t want to irritate it again. The philosophy behind using the ginger root, is that it’s essential ingredient triggers the melanocytes that are not working under the skin, to react and mimic their neighbouring cells. It’s a slow process and may takes 6 weeks for blending to start visibly occuring. Hypogimented discs will appear to shrink and then blend between 4 to 12 weeks use.

Tags: Beauty, cures for scars, dry skin scarring, ginger chinese medicine, ginger for scars, Health, Hypopigmentation, leg scarring, legs scars, Melanocyte, oils for dry skin, Pigment, Scar, scars on my legs, Shopping, Skin Care, treatment for scars, white scar treatment

This entry was posted on June 3, 2010 at 10:35 am. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Posted in Natural Remedies by Onna No Comments Yet