A soft and flexible seal, located under the skin, painless when pressed, is called a lipoma or wen. Neoplasm grows very slowly or does not increase in size, delivering only aesthetic and psychological discomfort. Quite often there is a lipoma on the head, since the skin in the hairy part of it contains many sebaceous glands and adipose tissue.
The causes of the formation of lipoma on the head
Until now, no factors have been found, the presence of which necessarily provokes the appearance of the described benign tumor.
The main cause of the appearance of the adipose is the pathology of the lipoid cells (adipocytes). But why they start to function incorrectly and uncontrollably to share, while it is not known.
There are suggestions that lipomas are formed against a background of metabolic disorders , hereditary predisposition, intoxication of the body. None of these theories is clinically confirmed.
Is it possible to treat lipoma on the head with folk remedies?
In spite of the fact that it is easy to find many recipes on the Internet for self-control of adolescents, doctors do not advise them to use it. Applying various compresses and lotions to the lipoma can provoke its damage and, as a result, rapid growth, squeezing of nearby blood vessels and nerve endings.
Thus, folk remedies are not suitable for the treatment of adipocytes, they can only aggravate the situation.
Removal of lipoma on the head with laser and other methods
To get rid of the hypodermic seal under consideration, it is better to apply the techniques of traditional medicine.
The most effective and painless option
Other options for getting rid of lipoma:
- surgical excision;
- resorption (a special preparation is introduced into the seal);
- Liposuction (aspiration puncture);
- radio wave removal.