treating a sutured scar

I'm an expert on falling UP stairs I used to work with models (at the local level) & they swear by Vitamin E. My dog pulled me down one day & my chin hit the corner of a concrete step. I removed concrete for weeks. The cut was not pretty. I was developing scar tissue in the cut that was hard & lumpy. One of the girls insisted I use Vitamin E. IT WORKED WONDERS!!! Today you would never know I had a problem as the lump went away with the scar.

One thing when it starts to scab don't pick at it. I used vitamin E oil on my scars. I have a huge one on my collar bone (very noticeable). I use cocoa butter on my belly (c-section). Different things help different people depending on the skin type. You just have to try out and see which ones work for you. I've seen a new one out called maderma. I haven't tried it but It seems to sell pretty good.

Hi I think I'm late in answering this. So sad to hear about your accident but at least you're okay. I don't know if it's available in your country but when I had a Ceasarian operation, my OB/GYN gave me 2 medicines for scars that worked real well. Contratubex and Bactroban. I don't see my scar anymore.

If you can get your hands on some fresh aloe that is the best thing for scarring.My son fell down on his bike and the petal went through his ankle.It left a terrible scar and that is what we used on his ankle to remove the scar.Also my baby got burnt in the hospital and that is what I used to heal up the burn and take out the scar.It really works.

I'm sure the wrong one to give advice on reducing scarring. Probably all the suggestions you've received are good ones, though I have no experience at covering them up. I have a scar from some shrapnel taken in Vietnam, which is unreduceable, and about a dozen scars I got just being a stupid, roughhouse kid. My buddies and I proudly compare scars and lie about how we got them. It's stupid macho fun...sorta like Quint, Hooper and the sheriff in Jaws, drunkenly pointing out their scars and laughing about them. Anyway...hope it turns invisible and you don't have to go thru another stitching up anytime soon.

I would definitely use vitamin e oil on it topically, but I have recently had a very pleasant surprise concerning scars. I started taking MSM just because it is used by every cell in our body and I know we don't get any where near enough of it in our diet. I was recovering from hip replacement surgery and was not regaining muscle strength and stamina like I thought I should. I started taking MSM to help build that and was very pleasantly surprised to find the very deep scar from my surgery was lightening, adhesions were dissolving, and I had a scar on my knee that had been there since childhood that is all but gone now. So I would recommend taking one to two thousand mg of MSM a day for a while to keep your injury from scarring.