If you are a pregnant woman, one of your biggest fears may well be that you will be covered in stretch marks after the baby is born. The truth is that you may well be. In fact, the deciding factor in whether you will have stretch marks or not is actually not in what you put on your skin, but rather what is in your genes. The quality of a person’s skin and its ability to adapt to changing conditions has already been decided well before you became pregnant. But, what you do during and after your pregnancy can help you to prevent getting stretch marks in the first place. Because stretch marks cures are hard to come by, the best thing you can do is prevent them.Many pregnant women make a regular routine out of applying lotions, oils, creams, and salves to their belly, legs, buttocks and breasts during pregnancy. The school of thought is that by moisturizing the skin, it will be better able to stretch and then regain its original size later. Skin does stretch, and it can bounce back after the body shrinks, but not always. When it doesn’t stretch successfully, stretch marks occur. The usual stretch marks cures – those that are applied after the stretch marks occur – are usually cocoa butter, baby oil, or Vitamin E oil. You can apply these topical treatments daily (or more often!) and you will see a significant change in your skin, although maybe not in your stretch marks. There is no doubt that our skin needs moisturizing, but it doesn’t mean that it will cure a stretch mark.Remember that a stretch mark is actual damage to the dermis level of the skin and applying lotion to the epidermis doesn’t get down that far. Your skin may look a little better, but the damage down below may remain the same. Other stretch marks cures usually require a visit to the dermatologist’s office. There are several laser procedures that have been proven to repair the damage that pregnancy or other physical changes in the body can create. Women are not alone in getting stretch marks – many men get them, too. Men who are heavy and then lose weight, men who gain muscle mass quickly, or even teenage boys who grow quickly – they can all get stretch marks, too. There is no one cure for everyone, so look for cures that rely on medically proven testing.Stretch marks occur in all types of people and have since time began. They are nothing new and nothing caused by external forces. Some people get stretch marks and some people don’t. Women get them. Men get them. There are even young children with stretch marks. They are nothing to be ashamed of or embarrassed by because they are just a reaction of your body to some force within. In normal circumstances, stretch marks are caused by a part of your body getting bigger. When a woman becomes pregnant, a lot of her body starts to grow at an unusually rapid rate. This rapid body growth is hard on the skin as it struggles to keep up with the pace. In most cases, the skin cannot keep up and it is forced to stretch, losing skin cells along the way. This is how stretch marks are caused. When a person gains a lot of weight for other reasons, stretch marks can appear, and they can appear anywhere, though usually on the inner thighs, buttocks, breasts, abdominal region, and upper arms – all areas where there are large fat deposits. Men, in particular, get stretch marks because of muscle growth. When a young man begins to build muscle through weight training, the growth in muscle size can exceed the skin’s ability to stretch and stretch marks appear.The commonly accepted way to treat stretch marks is through the use of lotions, oils, creams, and other topical solutions. By moisturizing the skin, it is believed that the striated ridges in the skin will heal. This doesn’t necessarily happen because those ridges are deep, beneath the epidermis. Located in the dermis, they do not “fill in” as people suspect, but the discoloration can be treated through the use of certain creams. Many people are choosing to use laser treatments to address stretch mark issues. These treatments can help, though no one who has stretch marks will ever see their skin back to its original state. Stretch marks are permanent and the best you can do is reduce their appearance.
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