Natural Treatment for Keloid Scars

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Posted by Rex (Harare, Zimbabwe) on 06/07/2009

I have a 9cm wide and about 1/2 to 3/4 cm high keloid across my chest. I have had it for about 25years. As keloids usualy go it grew from a pimple to this after steroid injections. I have just made a mixture of 1/2 tsp 3% hydrogen peroxide and 1/2 tsp of baking soda and placed it on the keloid 4 times yesterday. I would like to know how long do you think it will take till I see some visible flattening. I am so desperate for it to go away.

Apple Cider Vinegar

Posted by Linda (SF, CA) on 05/04/2009

I have been taking 1000 mg of flax seed oil and/or fish oil three times a day which seems to help keep my keloid flatter and less red.

Apple Cider Vinegar

Posted by Jennifer (North Bruwswick, New Jersey) on 05/04/2009

Hello,

I just wanted to let you know that i had a hypertrophic scar which is same as keloid but doesnt extend beyond the site of injury . i used tea tree oil on it (100%), please be patient and you will see results, it took two weeks, when you first start using tea tree oil you will think that nothing is happening but after a couple of days, the scar starts to shirnk and scab. Just exfoliate when that happens and keep putting tea tree oil. Tea tree oil doesnt burn healthy skin as bad as apple cider vinager, turns the hypertrophic scar into a white color after it has healed OR if you dont put too much of it. I put too much of it because i wanted to get rid of it, so it shrunk it then scabbed and peeled , now i have lighr pink color that im sure will feed with time and constant honey and aloe vera application. Try it and let me know how it does. Soak a cotton ball , the size of your scar in tea tree oil, put it on your scar and keep it over night then remove it the next day , if there is too much irritation, take a day off or continue if you want results faster. I hope it works for you, i tried everything from ACV, to scillicon sheets, nothing worked except tea tree oil. Use aloe vera once the scar scabs and falls to minimize the burning effects.

Good Luck to you

Apple Cider Vinegar

Posted by Jo (SF, CA) on 05/04/2009
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i have been using ACV for the keloids for the last 9 months .. and it has helped in the sense that i dont see the growth as before where i had to go for injections every few months . so thanks for the suggestion ..

However, some of the keloids even thought kinda flat look pretty red.. copped peptides were suggested to remove that and flater them .. but isnt that going to do the reverse by generating extra collagen .. i am confused ..

PLEASEEEEEEEEEEE HELP .. what other remedies would remove the redness .. and make them flatter?

Thanks a bunch ..

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Posted by Jane (Seattle, WA) on 03/24/2009

If you can't find food grade peroxide in India at a health food store, try going to a beauty supply store and buy 30% peroxide that you'd use for coloring hair. Just don't drink it!It may very well be the same thing they sell at 35%, but much much cheaper. I am using 30% peroxide from a beauty supply store to treat nail fungus (on a q-tip) and it appears to be working.

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Posted by Padmini (Visakhapatnam, India) on 03/24/2009

Please guide me where 396 hydrogen peroxide is avialable. I want to try for my keloids.

Thanks,
Padmini

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Posted by DAK (El Paso, TX) on 03/04/2009
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Thanks Ted!!! I tried the 50-50 hydrogen peroxide & baking soda mix and it reduced my keloid scar which was the size of a garbonzo bean to a pea size within 10 minutes. I have had this scar for 5 years after a mole removal gone bad a the dermotologist office since he did not allow the aenestitc time to kick in. My skin does not have any other keloid scars and I have been embarassed of the scar since its in such a visible area. I went back to the Dr.s office and he wanted to inject or remove the keloid yet it may leave a worse indentation. I decided to search for a natural remedy as an alternative and it worked. Thanks again DAK!!! ; )

DMSO

Posted by Connie (USA) on 11/12/2008
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ok. I went and purchased DMSO last week finally. for myself and a couple of friends. I have been using it for about a week now. First couple of days I mixed it with povidine iodine. It was the closest thing I could come to potassium iodide. I sent some articles about sski as to why I mixed the two.

Side effects. awful taste in your mouth. supposedly your body smells, I didn't notice, but I do taste it in my mouth for days after using it. Supposedly less than a teaspoon a day won't affect your body odor but who knows. my breath is awful! I'm thinking a drop of peppermint oil.

I used it on some varicose veins, a scab on my leg, that's been there since the end of Sept., a muscle on my other leg that needed some serious stretching, I believe I had permanently strained it a while back, I also used it on some scarring, some with raised keloids on them.

So far, besides the taste in my mouth it's all good. Within one day the muscle in my calf was better, within a few days the varicose vein that had been there for 20 years is kind of fading, the scar keloids are dissolving, the scabs and scars appear to be fading.

Then I added oregano oil in olive oil. Why? it fights yeast. In alternative medicine yeast is the root of all illness. I got sick as a dog within hours. Try to remember when you use this stuff that it boosts whatever you are taking into your body. That means if you are enjoying mouth amusement? ie. something with alot of sugar or not particularly good for you? you will pay.

The supplements I am taking along with this is MSM, vita c, wild yam, black cohosh, chasteberry, magnesium citrate, st. johns wort.

I've stopped craving coffee, although I still drink it. I didn't have chocolate until yesterday after going 24 hours without coffee. I also neglected my magnesium supplements for a day. Chocolate cravings have to do with a Magnesium defficiency. :)

I just put it on my doggie's hot spot on his paw as well as some scabs on his back from his extreme flea allergy.

I'm psyched about this stuff :)

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Posted by Brenda (Austin, Tx) on 10/17/2008

A doctor once told me that it's a heredity gene carried. My family on the side of my mother, they practicially all some at least 2 or more keloids. My mom has it as well. She had 8 children and out of those 8, I was the only one that has some too. They are horrible and I hate them. All the types of food someone has mentioned that causes them, I love to eat!!! What will I eat if I stop eating those certain types? Hehehehe!

Potassium Iodide (SSKI) and DMSO

Posted by Earth Clinic (USA) on 10/01/2008

From the following site:

http://www.tahoma-clinic.com/iodide.shtml

"Keloids" are abnormally thick scars, sometimes as much as an inch thick, that can form after injury. Although anyone can get a keloid, they're more common among blacks than other ethnic groups. Rubbing SSKI into a keloid at least twice daily will ultimately flatten them down to a "normal scar", but it can take many months to a year for particularly bad ones. The treatment goes faster if SSKI is mixed "50-50" with DMSO.

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Posted by Mary (Pittsgrove, NJ) on 09/26/2008

I have one chest keloid which started as a pimple that wouldn't go away. I went to a dermatologist who injected with some steroid and it grew very quickly (I don't believe I am a natural keloider, I have only one). I later found another doctor using a Kenalog and anti-cancer drug mix/injection which flattened the scar immediately and took away all the pain, but it seems to only last for a year at a time only to come back at the tail of the injection site. so it has actually moved and I have been looking for a natural remedy ever since so I hope Ted's suggestions work. the other injections are very expensive and although it works, it's heartbreaking to see it come back.
It's now comming back red, has not itched yet so I will start the Apple Cider Vinegar and I am going to change my diet and try Ted's topical suggestions I do believe Ted is right about the wheat and sweets because I did eat allot of fried foods,wheat and sweets. Any other suggestions I'll try them all. Thanks.

Potash, Honey, Palm, Aloe, Lime

Posted by Andrew (Lagos, Nigeria) on 08/26/2008
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I want to say thanks for all comments. My mum has a keloid on her chest and she has been looking for a cure for some time now.I read about a remedy that could work. She is currently using it and i am yet to get a feedback.
A mixture of grinded potash, 2 table spoon of pure honey, some palm kernel oil, Aloe vera gel and 10 lime juice extract. Press the affected area with hot water before applying the mixture in the morning and evening for one month.

Pressure

Posted by Terry (Port Gibson, MS) on 05/08/2008
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I got my first keloid at the age of 13. I thought it was a pimple and "popped" it. It grew larger. I had it removed and then it came back and I got new keloids from where the stitches were placed. I endured years of painful steriod injections because it kept growing. My dermotologist told me that once I got old and lost elasticity of the skin, it would stop growing and go away. I'm 43 and it's gone. I still develop keloids though not as bad. One piece of advice I can give is that pressure does help reduce the growth of keloids. I had major back surgery at 15. I had to wear a body cast for 6 months. The only place I developed a keloid was about a half inch at the top where the cast did not meet the skin. Also, my OB-GYN said, after my second c-section that I scarred as badly inside as I did outside. He had to cut very deeply and wide to get the keloid out of his way to deliver my daughter. I worry about my children having this problem. Does anyone know if this is an inherited condition? Thanks you.

Gum Spirit of Turpentine

Posted by Courtney (Chicago, Illinios) on 04/06/2008
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Someone told me that using Gum Spirit of Turpentine helps dry out keloids completely and they won't come back. She told me to find it at my local pharmacy (or who ever carried it) to see if it worked. I just started and I'm only a week in. It seems to be drying it out very slowly. I have three keloids on my ear. The biggest one is about as big as a pencil eraser on the back of my ear. The second one is on the front side of my ear and it's half the size of my biggest one. And the smallest is where my second ear piercing was. It's about half the size of the second. I tried asprin soulution. I tried using vitamin E as well. None of that was working, in fact my keloids seemed to feed off of it. Not sure if this "remedy" is working either but will see what happens in a month or so.

Gotu Kola

Posted by Joy (Chicago, IL) on 01/17/2007
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Hi, I have been trying to find natural cures for keloid scars and in addition to the information on your site, I also found information that says Gotu Kola is effective at reducing the size of keloid scars. I have not tried it yet, but I have just begun using the lavender and tee tree oil treatment recommended by Ted. I will follow up with updates of my progress.

Nivea Co Q10 Daytime Wrinkle Defense Cream

Posted by Ted (Bangkok, Thailand) 392 posts

The formation appears to be localized microbes/parasites and the reason why the other brand you mentioned work so well appears likely to be the cosmetic preservative used in the cream and not the CoQ10. Since I have no detailed information it is hard to guess.

A wet paste made of baking soda and borax (50/50) should help. If not you may need to modify the solution to include the hydrogen peroxide 1% as the wet paste solution. It will cause drying, but not much since the locale is Hawaii, but can be quite drying in colder climates.

If the issue is a fungus then a coconut oil and some tea tree mixed applied to the keloid should help, and I am sure you can find that easily.

The other thing that I found really help in prevention of them is the need to take seriously getting the body to alkaline, taking more than the usual dose at 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda per 1/2 glass of water taken at two times per day, one in morning and one before bedtime on empty stomach.

Natural sea salt is alkaline forming, so add this 1/4 teaspoon per liter of water to the drinking water will help further alkalinize the body.

If nothing works then add 1/4 teaspoon of food grade or USP grade borax to 1 liter of drinking water but I take it often 3 days out of 7 if I do have this problem and nothing seems to work. Borax is quite strong against parasites, which currently scientist haven't really gotten around to looking at this issue.

Oily foods and sweet foods often makes keloid worse, so it is necessary to avoid oily foods, sweet foods and all bread and white flour products. Eat non white flour should help while obviously avoiding other obvious bad habits of smoking, drinking, etc. should help.

Nivea Co Q10 Daytime Wrinkle Defense Cream

Posted by Sandha (USA) on 01/29/2007
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Previously I wrote saying what remedies had failed on a second "keloid" I had on my eyebrow. It behaved like a keloid in the sense that it was growing when it got hit or irritated. The head nurse had agreed it was a keloid. Just recently another medical person said it was not a keloid but a sebaceous cyst. NO WOMDER ALL THE KELOID FORMULAS DID NOT WORK. PLEASE REINSTATE THE FORMULAS i SAID DID NOT WORK. They probably do work on keloids but not on sebaceous cysts.

Nivea Co Q10 Daytime Wrinkle Defense Cream

Posted by Sandhya (Makawao, Hawaii)
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Nivea CO Q10 DAYTIME wrinkle defense cream healed a red, raised, growing, 6 month old keloid above the lip which was about 1/2 long. It was caused from removing deep skin cancer with a formula of blood root.

I discovered it by accident. I was using the solution for the co q 10 cream on my face when I noticed 2 weeks later that the keloid was shrinking and less red. It took about 6 weeks total for the keloid to die totally and I have never been bothered there since. I later tried Nivea's EVENING co q 10 wrinkle creme for another kind of keloid on and below the end of my eyebrow. The EVENING creme did not work though it had similar ingredients. This keloid seemed different from the other and was caused by several accidental injuries to the same place over several months. Every time it would grow bigger after hitting it against the bone and really hurt. Now keloid is protruding so it is always getting irritated and growing. I can feel a root system under keloid or so it seems. Keloid protrudes and looks like a hard big garbanzo bean. I tried aloe, co q 10 in bee cream. rose hip oil, fried onions in bee cream, quercitin in cream thus far to no avail. I am very fair and of Icelandic / Irish / English descent and 55 years old. I wondered where these keloids came from as I usually have very good scar healing. I have many scars from a car accident and operation and none have keloided. Any suggestions as to why it is happening on my face but not my body? Are there different kind of keloids? Iwill try some of your suggestions I have just read and trust they will work.

Honey

Posted by Rose (PA) on 11/25/2006
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I burned my hand by taking a pan out of the oven and I had a keloid by the same area. Well, I apply it directly to both areas and cover with a bandage before bedtime every night and within a week or 2 I saw it disappear. I also applied it to my keloid scar after surgery. It does wonders. I thank God. God is good.

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Posted by Kat (Ontario, Canada) on 09/15/2007
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I have had this raised scar for ages and it has never healed. I try not to bother with it. Anyway I started taking a capful of ACV straight everyday for a few days after reading this site. At the same time I also started doing a fasting cleanse for detox and weight loss. (I'm not overweight but I want to lose a belly.) Today I noticed that my scar was suddenly much flatter! It actually looked "deflated" and a bit wrinkly. The scar is also much softer to the touch - when before it was a really hard nub. I don't know if it was my fasting cleanse or the ACV but it could have been both. I would love to know why it helps if anyone or Ted knows!

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Posted by Linda (Petaluma, CA) on 07/28/2007
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Ted recommeded treatments for keloid scars. I tried the apple cider vinegar treatment first without any noticeable effect. Then I tried the teatree oil/lavendar oil treatment with very little effect. And now I am trying a third suggestion. Ted actually said to use a potassium carbonate/hydrogen peroxide paste on the keloid. I didn't have potassium carbonate so I substituted it with sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and made a paste with the 3%hydrogen peroxide. I notice a change in less than 2 hrs. My keloid scar has almost flattened now and is fading a little. I have been using this treatment for 6 days now. This treatment has done as well or even better job than the steroid shot injections I have endured over the years trying to get rid of this darn keloid. It's interesting that keloid stings and itches for about 5 minutes after applying the soln. but does nothing when applied to my normal skin. Thanks so much Ted! You're the best! I will share your suggestions with other keloid sufferers! Thanks Earth Clinic for your website, too.