Whether you have a surgical procedure done (like an excision, biopsy, removal, Mohs, etc.), or you have some kind of accident, the injury to your skin can result in a scar. The best way to avoid that is to do the following:
- Clean the site several times daily using a Q-tip and 50/50 hydrogen peroxide and water. (Diluting the peroxide with water makes it less drying to the skin but still allows its cleansing attributes to work.)
- When you are cleaning, make sure the site has no dried blood or scabs, and if it does, gently remove them by soaking them in the 50/50 solution and using the Q-tip. Your body’s natural healing inclination is to re-level out the skin, but in doing so, it will actually form a scar. Cleaning out the site allows only new, pink skin to fill in, rather than scabs and blood clotting, which will lead to scars.
- Every time you clean and until new, pink skin appears, apply Polysporin antibiotic ointment to the area and cover it with a bandaid. Do not use Neosporin! (40% of the population is allergic to Neosporin or will become allergic to it with regular use.) Polysporin is available on the shelf right next to Neosporin and is a better antibiotic agent.
- Follow the above steps for about two weeks.
- If you do get a scar or redness post-healing, there is always the possibility to do a scar revision procedure or have laser genesis to the site to help improve the way it looks even more.
