Skin care for pregnant women

• The appearance of stretch marks in the belly and breasts usually alleviated by controlling excess weight. Special creams can help. It should be implemented on a daily basis while there are some gentle massage.

• Due to the hormonal changes, the sun produces dark spots on the skin of the face that can take years to delete. To avoid them, it is imperative to use a sunscreen with a protection factor high and carry at all times (even to be under an umbrella or walking down the street). It is not advisable to directly exposed to the sun.

• Every body needs a good hydration, as the pregnancy dries the skin.

• An effective remedy against itching features of the abdomen is applied apple vinegar cut with water.

Scratching the belly produces striae pregnant?

According to some statistics, most of the skin stretch marks pregnant presents a greater or lesser degree. They are more frequent in the belly and breasts and leave as sequels white lines or irregular depression after childbirth. This phenomenon is related to the large amounts of circulating hormones during pregnancy.

The striations are presented with more intensity in those women with a genetic predisposition, but do not depend on whether the future mother is no longer scratch or put creams. To diminish to a minimum, should swell as little as possible and use a belt to hold the abdomen from the fourth month of pregnancy. The creams can help, though it is scientifically proven that this is so.

Striations in pregnancy

In the pregnant something similar happens: it is very common, especially in the first quarter, in some women to wake up a voracious appetite, resulting in few kilitos over. This causes the warming of the skin, which acts on the ground that gives the increase physiological steroids.

Therefore, it is essential to care intake during these months. In a normal pregnancy weight gain should be about 10 kilograms (see this number just weight). It can be used to moisturize your skin every day from all over the body with products containing collagen, elastin, rosehips, and so on.

Once the striates is installed you can try mitigated with the use of retinoids (vitamin A acid), in high concentrations and prolonged. This treatment improves the skin, but should only be done under the supervision of a physician specialist.

Preventable stretch?

Since the striations are considered scars, no surgical treatment to make them disappear, except those who are in an area of skin to be removed in a reduction of abdominal surgery or breast.

Therefore, the only thing we can do is to prevent its occurrence avoiding the relaxation of the skin, especially in states where it increases the factor of hormonal steroids (pregnancy, puberty, etc.)..

Control the excessive increase in weight of the kids who start adolescence is an effective measure. While it is true that at this stage must be properly fed, there is no reason to be fat.

Damn streaks - What bothered!

Their presence is extremely annoying for any woman, especially when putting on the swimsuit. Striations do not respect age and cause more of an annoyance. What is the origin of these unsightly lesions? Can prevented? Is there any treatment to combat them?

The streaks are in the form of injuries that are arranged concentrically zone around the navel, in the gluteal area, in the lumbosacral region, in the roots of members and in the breast, where rays are directed towards the nipple. At puberty, are more common in women (25 percent) than men (10 percent). Start at about the age of 10 and are located on the thighs and buttocks and lumbar areas.

Among the factors that determine his appearance may mention the genetic and endocrine (steroid hormones), hence his appearance after the third trimester of pregnancy, puberty, and in cases of obesity in which there are signs of increased activity of the adrenal cortex.