Keloid Treatment in Thalassery

Every Keloid Tool Under One Roof

Keloids are scars that overshoot: collagen keeps being deposited after a wound has healed, producing a firm, raised, itchy mass that spreads beyond the injury. Malabar skin is keloid-prone, and the founding clinic sees them on earlobes after piercing, on the chest and shoulders after acne, over the sternum and jaw, and along surgical scars, including caesarean scars that have thickened years later.

First-line treatment is a course of intralesional injections every three to four weeks, usually three to six sessions, which softens and flattens most keloids. Firm, dense keloids are frozen briefly with liquid nitrogen first so the medicine spreads evenly. Red, itchy, actively growing keloids are additionally treated with the pulsed dye laser, which the Thalassery flagship alone carries; it targets the blood vessels that feed the growth and settles the colour and itch.

Bulky keloids and most earlobe keloids are removed surgically under local anaesthesia, with injections given into the wound edges at the time of surgery and at intervals afterwards, and silicone and pressure earrings from the first week. That combination is what keeps the keloid from returning larger, and it is why surgery alone is never offered. Patients are referred here from Chennai, Coimbatore, Ooty and Pondicherry for this.

Dr. C.P. Thajudheen and Dr. Swathi P review each keloid for activity before choosing the sequence, photograph progress, and plan prevention: silicone on every new wound, no further piercings in prone ears, early acne control, and a note to any surgeon before a planned operation. Recurrence is possible and is caught early with follow-up.

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