burn, itch, or pain: Ingrown hair almost everyone is familiar with. Instead of a smooth, shaved skin surface of the pimples from spreading. You are not only a nuisance, but also look ugly. “Ultimately, it can occur anywhere on the body ingrown hairs,” says skin doctor Dr. Heiko Grimme from the skin center at the Kurpark to Stuttgart.
In men, affecting mainly the area of the Beard often. Vulnerable are also the body where you shave, but which are exposed at the same time, a lot of friction or where the skin is very soft. Not infrequently, therefore grow in the genital area hairs after shaving.
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you can prevent ingrown hairs hardly. Some people tend to simply cause your hair to sprout under the skin. They often have very thick and rather unruly hair. A hair grows under the skin, forms on the surface of a pimples. In most cases, the body rejects the hair finally.
Who shaves, thus helps in ingrown hair: Often the hair is not smooth, but in an oblique angle, cut off. As a result, it grows more easily in the skin. Also after Epilation can lead to ingrown hairs: Sometimes, the root of the hair will be damaged and the hair grows in an oblique angle.
Sometimes, small injuries are also tiny the Problem
Now, however, many men do not want to abandon the hair removal. Who often suffers from ingrown hairs, could do with another method, possibly better experience. “Depilatory cream is much milder and gentler than shaving,” says Grimme. You do not attacks the hair roots and the hair grows smooth and straight.
it is Not always ingrown hairs, however, are the real Problem: Sometimes you hurt when you Shave the skin in a tiny area. This bacteria can penetrate multiply, and, for example, a hair follicle that cause inflammation. This is particularly true in areas where many bacteria live on the skin in the genital area. Prevention can be, if applied after shaving, an anti-bacterial shaving water or alcohol from the pharmacy to the skin.
In the case of chronic ingrown hair, laser treatment can
to help To be a medical Problem, these infections, according to the Grimme, but almost never. They are mainly a nuisance. In rare cases, an abscess is formed from an inflammation of a hair root, but. You should not attempt to self-Express, but to go to a doctor.
Some people tend to be fundamentally strong to ingrown hairs – even then, if you depilate yourself. You can help permanent hair removal with a Laser, says Grimme. After that the hair does not grow back in normally. Hair to come yet, so these are much thinner and softer and no longer grow into the skin. “In chronic cases, will allow you to achieve good success,” said Grimme.
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