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By Cathy Wong, About.com Guide to Alternative Medicine since 2000

A Remedy for Scars?

Monday June 25, 2007
A reader asks, Is there a remedy to prevent scars? A neighbor swears by honey, but I'd never heard of using it for scars.

There are a number of home remedies and natural products marketed to prevent the formation of scars and to minimize the appearance of old scars.

The kind of scars that people are often interested in preventing are hypertrophic scars. They're red and raised and can be painful or cause limited movement in the affected area (called contractures).

Here's a closer look at three of the more popular remedies for preventing hypertrophic scars. Read the answer: A Remedy for Scars?

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