Children’s Scar Scar ManagementManagement

The Frenchay Paediatric Burn Centre, Scar Management Service offers advice and conservative management (treatments that do not involve surgery) to treat scars.

  • Managing scars can involve the use of silicone and/or pressure garments to help prevent or reduce hypertrophic scarring.
  • Scarring can take around two years to mature so treatment can continue this long.
  • Scars can not be removed but these treatments can help to reduce itch, pain and sensitivity and leave scars flat, soft and supple.

Hypertrophic Scarring: hypertrophic literally means 'overgrowth' - it is characterised by being raised, hard, red and 'itchy' and grows above the site of the injury.
Following a burn injury there is a high risk of developing hypertrophic scarring if the injury has taken over three weeks to heal or has required skin grafting.

Keloid Scarring: a sharply elevated, irregularly shaped, progressively enlarging scar due to the formation of excessive amounts of collagen in the corium during connective tissue repair. (Dorlands Illustrated Medical Dictionary). A keloid scar will grow and spread beyond the site of the original injury.

Any patient not under a burns consultant should be referred by their GP.
There are 3 clinics in operation:

  • Monday afternoons 12.30pm - 2.30pm (Frenchay)
  • Thursday afternoons 2pm - 4pm (Frenchay)

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Contact Scar Management

Occupational Therapy Department
Frenchay Hospital
Frenchay
Bristol
BS16 1LE
Telephone: 0117 3403859
Fax: 0117 9186562
Email: alison.guy@nbt.nhs.uk

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