What are the best ways to remove burn scars?

If accidental burns are not handled correctly, then the burned parts will easily leave scars. If you want to effectively remove scars, you must go to the hospital to receive regular burn scar treatment methods. Pay attention to wound care and avoid eating spicy and irritating foods.

First of all, you should choose to go to the hospital for treatment of burn scars, and go to the hospital in time for the doctor to clean, disinfect, suture or bandage the wound. People often worry that cleaning the wound will waste time, cause more bleeding or make the wound bigger, or even refuse to clean it simply because they are afraid of pain. In fact, cleaning the wound carefully is the most basic step to avoid scars and promote wound healing. Disinfection is to prevent infection, which is also the key to avoiding local scars. Because infection can cause damage to the lower layer of the dermis and the epidermis cannot regenerate, the defects have to be filled by the proliferation of granulation tissue, which will inevitably leave scars.

Second, burn scars should be treated in a timely manner and should be immediately rinsed with plenty of clean cold water after treatment to reduce high temperature damage to deep tissues; facial wounds should not be disinfected with iodine, otherwise it will cause pigmentation.

Third, be patient and wait for the wound to heal. After the wound has scabbed over, wait patiently for it to fall off on its own. People often dislike the unsightly black scabs, or out of curiosity, they cannot help but forcibly peel off the scabs too early. This is the most common mistake in the treatment of burn scars. At this time, the epidermal cells that are still being repaired have not yet fully grown, and without the protection of the hard scab, it is easy to form scars and pigmentation. When treating burn scars, you should also pay attention to the fact that an itchy feeling will occur when the wound is healing. Using scratching, hot water washing, friction with clothes and other methods to relieve the itching will stimulate the local capillary dilation and granulation tissue proliferation to form scars. Sometimes, the newly grown epidermal cells will be accidentally removed, which will also stimulate local inflammatory reactions and hinder wound healing.

Fourth, reasonable care also plays an auxiliary role in the treatment of burn scars. In terms of diet, irritating foods such as alcohol, chili, mutton, raw garlic, ginger, mustard, coffee, etc. can also promote scar growth. If you take medicines containing lead or mercury, it will promote pigmentation; sun protection should not be ignored. Especially in midsummer, the sun is hot and abundant, and the new skin is tender and can hardly resist the radiation of ultraviolet rays in the sun, so it is easy to form pigmentation; cosmetics, soaps, etc. cannot come into contact with wounds, so in order to permanently remove scars in the future, it is necessary to temporarily lose beauty for a few days.