It is advisable you seek for intervention from the medical field if for any reason you wouldn’t make any headway using exercises and creams in combating stretch marks.
17. Going for Surgery
There are several kinds of cosmetic surgery that can be used in erasing stretch marks. It begins by searching for a qualified and certified professional plastic surgeon. However, you need to make a lot of consultations with the individual to make sure you are comfortable with his/her before opting for his/her services. A good plastic surgeon will make bare the procedures to be employed, the risks associated with each procedure and possible side effects. The surgeon will also answer to many other relevant questions, too.
Liposuction, lifts and skin removal are the surgery processes by which stretch marks can be eliminated. The cost of this surgery normally varies from surgeon to surgeon and person to person. You also need to check with your insurance company as they may not cover for surgery expenses.
18. Surgery Using Laser
A recent development in technology has given birth to a new laser surgery that is believed to produce great results without any pain. The laser is properly guided over the skin of the patient so that it projects waves deep down into the skin. This is said to help in awakening the chemicals that build up collagen in the skin. Once done collagen growth starts up in earnest, and you are sure to be free from those stretch marks after repeated visits for laser treatments. Although this procedure is new and not widely practiced yet, it tends to be really expensive. There are many other steps you can venture into on daily basis if you want to avoid any occurrence of stretch marks around your skin.
19. Remain Hydrated
Taking lots of fluids and water do not only help in keeping your body healthy. Doing so also entails you having a healthy skin, too. Water intake will help you in maintaining a strong skin and healthy collagen. Once you have and maintain strong collagen, your skin will definitely pull without occurrence of stretch marks around it. In addition, water helps in flushing out body toxins. As these toxins are flushed out from your body, they are also flushed out from your skin too.
20. Keep a Healthy Skin
A clean skin is a healthy skin. Take it upon yourself to clean your face once daily. This is mostly important before you go to bed each day if you are given to wearing makeup. As you clean your face you remove the makeup and ultimately allow your skin to breathe. Our skin needs air to help them grow and keep creating fresh new cells. These new cells are responsible for maintaining the softness and smoothness of the skin and keeping the skin free from stretch marks.
21. Steer Clear from Steroids
The use of steroids is known to pose a lot of dangers to the body. There is a particular ingredient present in some steroids that can react with your skin to form stretch marks. Stretch marks do not have a particular area where they occur. They can occur around your arms, legs, abdomen and buttocks. Steroids that are employed in the treatment of certain ailments are not the problem here, rather, the ones used in weight lifting and body building are. Since male folks are given to body building with the use of steroids to accomplish their aim, they are prone to stretch marks attack.
22. Put a Stop to Smoking
There are several reasons for which daily intake of cigarette can be harmful to the body system. The smoke and products you exhale attacks the skin and damages its elastin. As you continue on daily basis, the elastin damages further. Anyone who smokes on daily basis is sure to experience wrinkles around areas such as face, neck, legs, arms and the whole body.
23. Try to avoid sudden gain in weight During Pregnancy
Although a lot of pregnant women think it to be impossible to resist rapid gain in weight, it is quite possible to do so. You need to gain weight but in a consistent rate so as to allow your body adjusts to the changes. If you jump from a pound a week on weight gain to 12 pounds in the following week, your body would not be able to adjust to the change. This in turn will lead to the formation of stretch marks.
24. Try Hypnosis
The use of hypnotism in combating stretch marks is a new. Qualified doctors do believe that the use of hypnotism can help in controlling the way your body responds to certain things. For example, professional doctors who employ hypnotism in combating stretch marks normally run a session for patients where they tell them how great their body looks like. They also tell them there body does not have stretch marks and their skin is healthy, too. Doing this will in turn trigger the mind to belief it; this in turn leads to the body following suit. These professionals belief the mind does have a great effect on the way we look. And they are known to manipulate the mind for the benefit of the patient.
25. Make use of Sunscreen
Sunscreen usage can help in the fight against stretch marks. Anytime you want to go outside into the sun, ensure you cover your skin properly with a sunscreen that has a high Sun protection factor (SPF). Sunscreens are known to dry out the top layers of your skin, as well as those layers underneath also. Anytime the skin layers underneath dry up, so also does the collagen dry up too. When the collagen becomes dried up the skin losses elasticity and becomes prone to damage. And at this point, it only takes a little disturbance for stretch marks to form.
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