Can't help but feel upset!

jenhug

my friends sister in law fell through a glass door as a young child. she was slashed from forehead to chin, and had many many stitches. the hospital prescribed a cream, that her mum had to apply daily, and there is almost no scar at all, i don't know what the cream was called but you should be able to ask your gp for a prescription.

jenhug

you could ask your gp for a referral to a scar management clinic, if your area has one.

Stephb1986_2

When it's healed use bio oil on it so it doesn't scar as badly. My h2b walked into some barbed wire and it cut just below his eye (he was lucky not to lose it) and once it had healed he used bio oil on it and you can't even see it now

I hope your little one is ok.

Steph xx

delain

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Children have accidents, it's a fact of life x if it does scar it will no doubt be hardly noticeable by the time she is older. My son hurts himself at least once a week, even the childminder only wrote the serious cuts and grazes in her book as she said he would fill her book up in a week if she put every cut and graze in. He's only 4 and his front teeth are wonky and hanging on for dear life and he has a scar on his forehead where he fell on the corner of a coffee table and he constantly has a scab on at least one, but mostly both knees. I know he's very accident prone and there's nothing I can do about it so there's no point getting worked up about it x

Anyway if he does have a few scars when he's a bit older it will give us something to tell him stories about how he got them when he asks what they are x

Hope she's ok, it's awful when your child hurts themselves x I've kinda become immune to it now as DS has hurt himself that many times but I still get upset if he hurts himself badly :-(

Irrelevant maybe, but has anyone tested him for dyspraxia? That can cause that sort of clumsiness. Is he very bendy, sort of double jointed? My brother was the same (he is a chef in a posh place in London now so it hasn't held him back )

emg

there are some really good scar reduction serums available now in pharmacies, the boots one was recommended to me by someone who works with cleft lip/palate as being really similar to the one they give to children who have surgery.

New_and_Improved_Me

Injuries in young children heel remarkably fast and leave almost no signs or scarring at all.

Young bodies re-generate cells as they grow….and skin replenishes itself as it grow.

She will be fine…

My youngest…one day decided to play with the car lighter as I was driving….I didn’t notice…

Anyway he pushed it in so it became really hot and then proceeded to push it into his palm…..The first I found out about it is when the screams of pain started…..Poor thing….

Anyway…drove like a mad person straight home…..cus it was the closest place I could think of at the time to find ICE…calmed him down…gave him a packet of sweets….put ice and burn cream on….

A few days later he had developed a nice blister….kept a plaster on for a while…

Anyway, today you can’t even tell which hand it was…..at the time it was a nice 20p coin size scar…..

My middle son had a really deep gash on his chin from a fall….you could see the bone….had several stiches….a year later….almost no noticeable sign of it all….

She will be fine….As a parent you always worry……stop worrying…..:)

Fuzzy_Duck

I had a facial wound which needed stitches as a baby. I'm now 25 and no one has ever noticed it unless I point it out. It's not very visible at all so try not to worry too much!

System

She's young, she is healthy, she will grow and what is left of a scar will get lighter and smaller on her face. By adulthood it will probably be just a little mark (which can be easily covered by concealer). I'm an expert on hiding imperfections of which I have many.

Lunar_Eclipse

Your feelings are completely understandable, but it won't be as bad as you are currently imagining.

A friend of ours was bitten on the face by a dog when she was about 4, and needed stitches. It was quite nasty and she was affected in two areas: one on her cheek and the other over her mouth/lips. Miraculously, it is unnoticeable to most people.

I also had an operation as a teenager, after which plastic surgery was suggested for the scars. I didn't have any, and you'd be amazed how well they have healed. Once they were healed, I was recommended to expose them to some sun (but being careful not to burn as scars can be more sensitive than other skin) and also to apply something like BioOil to them daily for six months or so.

Have a search on the internet and see what's recommended. Maybe Vitamin E supplements would help?