skin healing in children - I'm worried about my ds

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I may be worrying about nothing but I've noted that it takes ages for my ds's (4 years old) skin to heal.

When he was 9 months old he nicked the skin near the eye - it took a year for the scar to go. Then last summer he got a carpet friction burn the size of a two pence piece playing with his friend - it's only just faded this summer.

In early June he got chicken pox - he didn't scratch the spots at all but where he had the spots are very dark brown marks still.

Does this healing (or non)healing time sound normal in your experience?

Otherwise he's in great health.

Hi

In my experience its normal, his skin sounds very much like my own, scars seem to stay around, well its more the colour of the scar that does, its nor so much raised/puckered skin etc just the pigment.

Mine also resurface when exposed to sun too.

What is his skin tone? im quite tan and tend to go dark in the sun.

Please check with doctors/pharmacist before taking my advice, but I have a vague recollection that folic acid helps with skin healing and scarring. It can be obtained from food, particularly some vegies (sorry, this is a useless post, I have no idea which ones).

Don't know if GP's can test folic acid levels in blood tests.

My DS2's skin seems to take ages to heal. When he was a toddler he bashed his chin on a plastic rocker and the mark stayed there for ages. Everyone was saying to me that it was a shame that it was leaving a scar, but the mark did go eventually after many months. He had a minor operation when he was three (about 2 years ago) and that scar stayed red for a very long time and only fairly recently has it faded to a faint line. I have no reason to believe there's anything wrong with him - he's never had any real illness in his life, apart from the odd cold and chicken pox.

OK - many thanks for that - I reckon it's normal for him then.

amber - yes he tans very well and he's of very mixed background. I am too and I find that I get very dark scars that never go. Perhaps that it then. His c pox marks are now very dark brown. I'll guess they'll fade when they want to.

I'll not panic then. Many thanks all! Back to my cool former self.