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What Are Stretch Marks?
Stretch marks, or striae, occur if you gain more than average weight during your pregnancy or if you have a family history of stretch marks. Ethnicity makes a difference: African-American women are less likely to get stretch marks. For 50-90% of women, pregnancy and stretch marks go hand in hand. Pregnancy stretch marks are also the most common form of stretch marks. Even though they are so common, many women are bothered by them. Luckily there are a number of ways for you to permanently get rid of your stretch marks after pregnancy, including through plastic surgery. Read more about plastic surgery at FemPlace.com.
Prevention
Stretch mark prevention will save you the trouble of getting rid of stretch marks once they've occurred. Stretch marks occur because the collagen and elastin that bind your skin are stressed during weight gain, resulting in tears in your skin's elastic fibers. Typically, on light-skinned women, stretch marks will appear red or pinkish. Darker-skinned women will notice that their stretch marks are lighter than the surrounding skin. They may appear on your abdomen, buttocks, breasts or thighs.
Stretch Marks: Guide on How to Prevent and Get Rid of Them
Stretch marks are caused when skin expands in response to sudden weight gain. While skin does stretch to a certain extent, at some point – which is going to vary from person to person – when it is stretched to it's limit the inner layer of skin actually tears. In addition, there can be loss of collagen and elastin in the skin. This underlying layer of skin shows through the upper layers and looks streaked.
At first stretch marks appear as pink or purple lines. These are the result of damaged capillaries. Over time they look white. Stretch marks are the scars of the torn inner layer of skin. Stretch marks are most common on thighs, abdomen, hips, breasts and upper arms. Once stretch marks appear they are extremely difficult to get rid of.
How to Get Rid of Stretch Marks?
Pregnancy often leaves women with stretch marks. Most women are keen to know about avoiding stretch marks during pregnancy. When there is rapid weight gain, the skin stretches too fast and acquires unsightly marks. Known to dermatologists as striae, these stretch marks begin as red or purple blemishes that turn to silvery white lines on the skin on the areas of the body that grow too quickly.
What is the Key to Avoiding Stretch Marks During Pregnancy?
Banishing the marks of physiques past | Muscle & Fitness/Hers
The truth about stretch marks: here's your guide to banishing the marks of physiques past Muscle & Fitness/Hers, July, 2003 by Deborah Meier Brown
Okay, so maybe the problem doesn't rank up there with world hunger, air pollution, global unrest or even paying your rent on time, but stretch marks–those unattractive reddish streaks that show up when your body changes too quickly–can be an unsightly nuisance. When you're committed to eating right and maximizing your workouts to look and feel your best, it's kind of a drag to develop these hard-to-get-rid-of lines (basically, scars that result from overtaxing your skin's elasticity) just as you're really starting to make some progress.
While most experts agree on the causes of striae atrophicae (the medical term for stretch marks), they have widely divergent ideas about how to best prevent and treat them. The following should help you separate fact from hype and expand your understanding of this common but nonetheless irritating condition.
Stretch Marks Misconceptions
Stretch marks are something that a lot of people live with, and almost everyone who’s had them has a story about how they got rid of them, or how they prevent them. Mixed in with what works are a lot of misconceptions about stretch marks. Below, we’ll run through a few of the most enduring ones, and include the actual truth.
- Men cannot get stretch marks.
Again, another common misconception. Men who lift heavy weights and build muscle fast are especially susceptible, as well as men who gain weight rapidly for other reasons.
- Stretch marks fade when the weight does.
Although some do fade away after you’ve lost the weight that you gained, most don’t completely. Skin that has been stretched and thinned by weight gain doesn’t bounce back easily.
- Stretch marks cannot be prevented.
There are ways to decrease your chances of getting stretch marks, and the best way is through proper diet and exercise. Healthy living will keep weight gain to a minimum, in turn reducing the occurrence of stretch marks.
- Once you get stretch marks, you’re stuck!
You can cover them, remove them, or treat them. Science and technology have given us a lot of choices for dealing with stretch marks.
- Treating stretch marks is expensive.
Yes, plastic surgery is pricey, but there are other, cheaper ways to reduce your stretch marks. There are a lot of topical creams and lotions that minimize their appearance.
- It isn’t worthwhile to treat stretch marks if they won’t disappear completely.
Definitely not accurate! Even a small improvement in the appearance of stretch marks means that the treatment is a success. It takes consistency and discipline, but treatments definitely have their merits.
- Stretch marks only affect pregnant women.
Although ninety percent of expectant mothers get stretch marks, but anyone can get them, from a bodybuilder to a child going through puberty. If you gain weight rapidly, you have a good chance of getting stretch marks.
- The only sure way to get rid of stretch marks is through surgery.
There are other options besides a visit to a plastic surgeon. Laser or light therapy and chemical peels are the most popular choices.
- Insurance covers the cost of stretch mark treatments.
Sadly, most insurance companies consider stretch mark removal a cosmetic procedure and do not cover the cost of treatment.
- Teenagers and kids don’t get stretch marks.
Actually, it’s quite common to get a few stretch marks during growth spurts. Children go through periods of rapid growth, and this can cause those stretch marks. Luckily, children’s skin heals quickly, meaning that their stretch marks fade much faster over time.
Stretch Marks 101
Stretch marks affect everyone. It can be found in both men and women across all races, it happens to fat and thin people, and it can be present in young and old people alike. This makes stretch marks one of the most common skin problems around and also a very important area of interest in both dermatology and cosmetology.
Stretch marks are basically scars that at first would appear as thin reddish or purplish lines on the skin and eventually take on an appearance with a much diminished color; more mature stretch marks can even develop into dull white or pale silver tracks on the skin. Also, these marks tend to have a mind of their own as they easily expand into other parts of the body.
These scars or marks result when extra-cellular proteins called collagen found in the skin are divided or parted due to some inherent or aggravating factors. The collagen separation does not cause any pain, however it can stretch the skin and may even leave a mild stinging and prickly sensation. When this happens, you can always apply lotions or creams to relieve the prickliness.
Stretch marks on breasts. What is the reasoning behind it.
What causes stretch marks on breasts?
What makes stretch marks on breasts go away?
If you are a small A cup probably you dont have stretch marks on your breasts. This could be only true if you had small breasts in your whole life. If you lost weight, maybe you are one those who suffers from it even if you are an A cup right now.
Painful stretchmarks?
Hi Amsa,
Though i am yet to experience these – i am using cocoa butter too – but this is what i found on a pregnancy website for you. Hope it helps!
Stretch Marks in Pregnancy
Nearly every woman dreads them.
Most won't talk about them.
Striae gravidarum, or stretch marks are probably the most discussed and feared of the changes to the body during pregnancy.
About Stretch Marks
What are Stretch Marks?
Super elasticity is a gift some super heroes have. Stretch marks are a skin condition almost everyone has. It's the opposite of super hero status – a mark of our humanity.
Stretch marks are called striae distensae. They can begin as dark red or pink lines, fading with time to a lighter, silvery mark on fairer skin, and as darker pigmented lines on darker skin tones.