Vitamin E for healing (was Where's Sharyn?}

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Back in the late 1970s my hubby and I went on a weekend motorcycle tour

with a group of friends. The first night out he left the saddle bags in

the motel. First time I got off the bike I put my leg on the hot

exhaust pipe and burned it nearly to the bone.

Being me I never went to the doctor. Just kept it moist with Vitamin E.

It healed without a scar or any sign except a slight shadow where the

burn was. As I get older the shadow has darkened considerably, but if I

rub my hand over it I can't feel it.

Judith Alta

Landes wrote:

Sharyn -

The plastic surgeon that operated on my daughter had me putting the

Vit.

E around and directly on the incisions from the second we had her home

from the hospital. A lot of her incisions weren't typical incisions

like you would think with an operation, they were simply a thin red

line

because they were on the face. As badly as she was hurt, her age

and as upset as I was the doctor let me sit right beside him while he

did

her operation and he explained everything he was doing step by

step. I puke when the cat pukes and I have to clean it up but I sat

there and watched all that go on and didn't pass out or feel sick once,

LOL.

With her facial surgery in order to prevent scarring, after he cut off

and manipulated the ragged edges of skin that were all over her face

from

the cuts and cleaned everything up, he sewed the "underlayment"

skin in three steps - one layer of stitches were deep in the tissue,

the

other round of sutures was the next layer of tissue up, then the next

layer of tissue which was right under the skin. Then when he sewed

the top layer of skin together he sewed under the skin, taking tiny

stitches and then pulling the sutures in such a way that the skin went

together on the front of her face and no sutures showed at all - just a

very few on each end and the cuts then looked like they had gone

together

without any stitching - they were just long red lines on her face.

He explained how and why he was doing what he was doing but I don't

remember what was said, other than it was done that way to prevent

scarring.

It's hard to explain but think about a good seamstress sewing a hem on

a

skirt and the stitches you take are on the backside and it's enough to

hold the hem in place but you can't see anything on the front of the

skirt. It was something like that and it is the way plastic

surgeons suture so you can't see the stitches and there is no scarring

afterwards. This child only ended up with two scars on her face,

each one about one-quarter of an inch long. One is on her forehead

and the other around her temple/eye socket area, as those areas was

where

the damage was the deepest. Considering they thought she was going

to lose her eye and be permanently damaged, facially, how she looked

after the healing was complete was a miracle. What a testament to

an excellent surgeon who just happened to be in the hospital the day we

were brought in by ambulance and to the healing power of little

children.

The Vit. E I bought was the most expensive kind I could find at the

makeup counter at Dillards. I knew nothing about natural healing or

health food stores at that time and I bought the kind of Vit. E that

was

in the little blister bubbles and you broke it open and applied it in

one

application per blister. It was some kind of skin repair step in a

high priced makeup line but I don't remember the name, I just knew I

wasn't buying a bottle of Vit. E at Wal-mart and putting that on my

daughter's face, LOL. I would certainly ask the surgeon what he

thought before you used any type of oil, though.

On another note, last summer my two nieces were in a car accident and

one

broke her back, her ankles, her knee, ruptured her spleen, collapsed a

lung and lacerated her liver. She had 3 surgeries in the first 2

days she was in the trauma center, and one of the surgeries was to put

pins and screws in her ankles and her legs. Her legs and ankles

looked like a train track of stitches. Both girls had a lot of cuts

and scrapes all over, and my oldest niece had some very wicked cuts on

her arms where she drug her sister out of the mangled truck. The

truck was on fire and exploded, hurling both girls another hundred feet

through the air and onto a gravel road. The first thing my mom did

after she saw the girls was go to a health food store and buy Vit. E

oil,

take it back to the hospital and start putting it on every stitch,

scrape

and cut she could find. I was on the other end of the country at

the time but the minute I got back home I stopped and bought the best

Vit

E oil I could find at the local HFS and drove it down, not finding out

until I got there that my mom was already on the ball with it,

LOL.

Today, you can't find hardly any scarring on either one of those girls

and what is showing is very faint. It had to be the Vit. E oil, and

the angels. :-)

At 09:16 AM 12/22/2007, you wrote:

Thank you, and Cheryl! I’ve

always heard Vit. E for scars, but certainly not until after the

incision

has healed.