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The growth on the chest in your image is a keloid scar, which is a type of raised, thickened scar that extends beyond the original wound site. Keloids can be persistent and sometimes challenging to treat, but several effective solutions are available. Treatment is often tailored to the size, location, and duration of the keloid, as well as individual skin type.

## Medical and Dermatological Treatments

- **Corticosteroid Injections:** These are among the most common and effective treatments. Steroid injections reduce inflammation and collagen production, helping to flatten and soften the keloid over time. Multiple sessions are usually required, spaced a few weeks apart[1][2].

- **Cryotherapy:** Freezing the keloid with liquid nitrogen can reduce its size, especially for smaller or newer keloids. Cryotherapy is sometimes combined with steroid injections for better results[1][2].

- **Laser Therapy:** Pulsed-dye laser and other vascular lasers can help flatten keloids, improve their color, and reduce symptoms like redness and itching. Laser therapy is often combined with steroid injections for thicker scars[1][2].

- **Silicone Gel or Sheets:** Applying silicone-based products to the keloid can help flatten and soften the scar over time. These are particularly effective for early-stage or smaller keloids and are safe for long-term use[1][3].

- **Surgical Removal:** For very large or persistent keloids, surgical excision may be considered, often followed by other treatments (such as steroid injections or radiation) to reduce the risk of recurrence[4][3].

- **Radiation Therapy:** In difficult or recurrent cases, low-dose radiation therapy after surgical removal can help prevent the keloid from coming back. This is usually reserved for severe cases due to potential long-term risks[4][1][3].

## Home Remedies and Adjuncts

- **Aspirin Paste:** Topical application of aspirin paste may help reduce keloid size and pigmentation, but should be used with caution and stopped if irritation occurs[5].
- **Garlic, Honey, and Onion Extract:** These natural remedies have some evidence for reducing keloid size and symptoms, but results are variable and they are best used as adjuncts to medical therapy[5].

## Important Considerations

- Keloids are prone to recurrence, even after successful treatment. Combining therapies and following up with your dermatologist can help achieve the best results.
- Some treatments, if not performed correctly, can worsen keloids. Always consult a qualified dermatologist before starting any treatment, especially for large or complex keloids like the one shown in your image[1][2][3].

## Summary Table of Treatment Options

| Treatment | Effectiveness | Notes |
|--------------------------|--------------|----------------------------------------------------|
| Corticosteroid injections| High | Multiple sessions, reduces size and symptoms |
| Cryotherapy | Moderate | Best for small/new keloids, often combined |
| Laser therapy | Moderate | Improves appearance, often combined with steroids |
| Silicone gel/sheets | Moderate | Non-invasive, good for early/small keloids |
| Surgery | Variable | High recurrence unless combined with other therapy |
| Radiation | High (with surgery)| Reserved for severe/recurrent cases |
| Home remedies | Low-Moderate | Adjunct only, variable results |

Consulting a dermatologist is essential for a structured, safe, and effective treatment plan tailored to your specific case[1][2][3].

Sources
[1] Say Goodbye to Keloids: Effective Treatment Options https://www.london-dermatology-centre.co.uk/blog/keloid-removal-treatments/
[2] Keloid Scar Treatment / Removal London & Surrey | Dr H Consult https://www.drhconsult.co.uk/treatments/keloid-scar-treatment/
[3] Management of keloid scars: noninvasive and invasive treatments https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8007468/
[4] Keloid scar - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/keloid-scar/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20520902
[5] Can You Get Rid of Keloids? Treatments and Home Remedies https://www.healthline.com/health/how-to-get-rid-of-keloids
[6] image.jpg https://pplx-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/v1749785129/user_uploads/20247358/cc1c1e66-5b5f-44c0-8763-ea67ae607e64/image.jpg
[7] How to get rid of keloid scars - Elastoplast https://www.elastoplast.co.uk/did-you-know/health-and-protection/keloid-scars
[8] Keloid scars - NHS https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/keloid-scars/
[9] Keloid scars: Diagnosis and treatment https://www.aad.org/public/diseases/a-z/keloids-treatment
[10] Keloid and hypertrophic scars: a guide | Royal Free London https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/patient-information-leaflets/keloid-and-hypertrophic-scars-guide
[11] How To Get Rid Of Keloids (Raised Scars) | familydoctor.org https://familydoctor.org/condition/keloids/

Take time to read and understand everything in the link below.
Goodluck
https://www.quora.com/What-one-tip-changed-your-coding-skills-forever

n = 2s-d/2a-d

My humble advice I want to give you is that, don’t allow your academic achievement gets in your head. Start thinking, I mean really thinking. What do you want? don’t allow anyone to do the thinking for you. Once you know what you want, invest your time to do through research about the thing you want to do. After, whatever it take to achieve that thing, be it time or money, invest massively on it to be employed or starting your own business. I will suggest invest in digital skills- coding or anything that will add values your life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYwtObpV78

Trust me you have already discovered what will totally set you free from endless search for non-existent job.
- You will have enough time to develop the home teaching job to the point of setting up your class lessons outfit as you already explained in your write-up.
- You will have enough to think of other means of generating more income.
- Working for any organisation that does not pay enough, is like working in the cubicle,by the time you know it you have spent several years of no real tangible achievement.
- Doing teaching job in different areas/ subjects expands your mind and before you know it, you begin to connect ideas from what you must have read in the course of the teaching job; which will invariably be applicable in other areas.
- Invest massively in the books or other learning materials,do not stop learning.
- Do not stop your savings from the teaching job, so that when another project come up you have funds to execute it.
- Do not work for any file-carrying company that will not add value to your life.
Wishing you the best.

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Most of the commenters either read but could not comprehend the report or already assumed the report is all about siting "Nuclear plants" in Nigeria. The report is all about establishment "multifunctional scientific research" not establishment of "Nuclear plants".

@Op your yokes have been broken, trust me! Your companionship with her has been the reason why you've have not been able to achieve your God- given potentials.
Calm down! I repeat calm down man! Clear your mind go for real body exercise until you are exhausted. That will make you to have some sleep, after some days of sleepless night.
Try and much as possible to do some little exercise every three days a week to increase
you energy level and allow to have full concentration.
Begin to look and see beautiful ladies out are ever ready to love for whom you are. They are have been eyeing you when you were in the cubicle, you called relationship
Bros! do not commit suicide because of unreliable and unfaithful being.
Life is beautiful!

YesIam:
How do we get capital?
For how many years now, I have pleaded, begged, been used by different people, bro, I have suffered.
These days I am filled with hate, I don't know what exactly is keeping me from doing crime.
Sometimes it's easier saeid bro, I swear.

Do whatever your hand finds, even if it involves menial jobs to raise the capital for what you want to do.Stop begging!But do not get involves in any crime.

Ramos16:
what is wrong with you man, how can u advice him to go for hnd over university, where do you come from.

I know so many of you are still crazy for university degrees without valuable skills. I think you know the number of graduates are roaming the streets looking for jobs. Degrees without basic skills needed by employers are just meal tickets.

Going through your write up clearly shows that your level of literacy is without doubt is excellent. I will strong advise you to follow your heart. You pointed out that you have strong passion for engineering, which you studied in your first phase of polytehnics education. I will STRONG advise you to go for HND programmes, as also advised by your father. You should not seek for admission into university education, because others are all rushing for university degrees. I am going to quote from James Altucher's book- 40 Alternatives to college.
" Only one problem as you already know, is that when I arrived at the job, after 8years of learning how to program in an academic enviroment-I couldn't program. I had no clue. I couldn't turn on a computer. It was a mess. I think ruined people lives while trying to do my job." I heard my boss whisper to his boss's boss. I don't know what we're going to do with him, he has no skills". And what is worse is that I was in a cluster of cubicles so everyone around me could hear whisper also." I will list basic skills to have before you complete your tertiary education, if you can even not secure an employment at the end of the day.

- Learn how to code aka computer computer programming- choose from any language, preferably python
- Investment massively in areas of Engineering you have passion for; softwares , books, time, energy and other tools valuable tools.
- Dig deep on how to solve people's problems with aquired skills.
- I know you can write, try to improve on it.
- Learn how to network.
- Learn howto negotiate.
- Learn how to sell.
- Begin to start a bussiness now.
All the above listed are not taught in school
Wishing you the best.

Based of your write up clearly shows that your level of literacy without doubt is excellent. I will strong advise you to follow your heart. You pointed out that you have strong passion for engineering, which you studied Engineering in your first phase of polytehnics education. I will STRONG advise you to go for HND programmes, as also advised by your father. You should not seek for admission into university education, because others are all rushing for university degrees. I am going quote from James Altucher book's 40 Alternatives to college.
" Only one problem as you already know, is thatwhen I arrived at the job, after 8years of learning how to program in an academic eviroment-I
couldn't program. I had no clue. I couldn't turn on a computer. It was a mess. I think ruined people lives while trying to do my job." I heard my boss whisper to his boss's boss. I don't know what we're going to do with him, he has no skills". And what is worse is that I was in a cluster of cubicles so everyone around me could hear whisper also." I am list basic skills to have before you complete your tertiary education, if you even can secure an employment at the end of the day.

- Learn how to code aka computer computer programming- choose from any language, preferably python
- Investment massively in areas of Engineering you have passion for; softwares , books, time, energy and other tools valuable tools.
- Dig deep on how to solve people's problems with aquired skills.
- I know you can write, try to improve on it.
- Learn to network.
- Learn to negotiate.
- Learn how to sell.
- Begin to start a bussiness now.
All the above listed are not taught in school
Wishing you the best.

Nigeria U17 vs Mexico U17

Time: 20.00 (12am Nigerian Time)

Date: Thursday, November 5 (Friday, November 6 in Nigeria)

Venue: Estadio Municipal Ester Roa

City: Concepcion

Jesus, man. Your degree consists of studying the foundations of all scientific and technical knowledge and you're wondering what you can do with that? I believe the correct answer is "Whatever you can imagine."

If you're a good communicator and you manage to strike a balance between theoretical and experimental know-how, then you can basically go do whatever you want, regardless of whether that's finance, engineering, management, entrepreneurship, policy work, plumbing, teaching, design, programming, or anything else that might strike your fancy.---- Michael Woods, Caltech alum, Physicist, Entrepreneur

The advice of I am going to give you is use some of the money you must saved from your NYSC programme, buy a computer or any reading device and stock it with e-books from physics to programming to history to motivational stuffs and start serious and deliberate studies.This singular attitude we keep you sane,while at the same time looking for jobs. It is time to begin rigorous and mind expanding activities like reading, writing, analytical thinking,coding, listening and effective communication which today's world needs. I can tell you that the only thing you have gained in your entire formal education is how to read and write and compute figures without critical thinking. The time of rote learning is over - so called cramming has ended.

Courtesy of the author of "Learn Python the Hard Way" -Zed A Shaw.This what he said:
If you've got experience programming then making something with a new language does work, but if you've had *no* experience then that won't work. The best way is to find a good beginner book, go through it page by page, and type *every single piece of code in and get it running*. That's really the only way to do it, and you have to do it consistently, at least 2 hours a day (take a break for one day though). My book, "Learn Python The Hard Way" does this, as well as "The Little Schemer", so grab one of those and just start typing.

If you want those books in pdf, send your email to me .My email is atansoro@gmail.com
Coding is really hard work. keep that in mind
best of luck!

This question begs(asks) for answers.The same question keeps coming to my mind always especially since I left my country-Nigeria to the to the Western World.I began to see the way their societies are well organised and administered. The awareness of their people is second to none when it comes to information and every other things that people need to know about their welfare. I have read and heard some statements as some the problems confronting African countries.Question like long time of colonization of African people by the Western World and after some of the countries have gained their independence for more than five decades, almost 80 percent of the African countries are still wallowing in abject penury.Another statement is African people do not have immense mental magnitude to solve their problems.Is it true? Though, I am not the best to write on this very important topic which has made African countries as dregs of the world societies.I will like to hear from people that are well versed in Africa affairs and World economies. Is hat the way thing we remain for many years to come. Despite the naturally endowed material resources and huge number of strong, agile and vibrant of young people, African countries still in the donor's list of the developed countries.
The question we need to ask ourselves is why our societies are so full of wars from Nigeria to Egypt,from Central African Republic to Congo DR.
Please I would like to have answers to the question.
Source:[url]atansoro..co.uk[/url]

Nigerian man survived 3 days at bottom of Atlantic Ocean

LAGOS, Nigeria — About 100 feet down, on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, divers had already pulled four bodies out of the sunken tugboat. Then a hand appeared on a TV screen monitoring the recovery.

Everyone assumed it was another corpse, and the diver moved toward it.

“But when he went to grab the hand, the hand grabbed him!” Tony Walker, project manager for the Dutch company DCN Diving, said of the rescue in May.

Harrison Odjegba Okene, the tug’s Nigerian cook, had survived for three days by breathing an ever-dwindling supply of oxygen in an air pocket. A video of Okene’s dramatic rescue —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArWGILmKCqE — was posted on the Internet more than six months after the rescue and has gone viral this week.

As the temperature dropped to freezing, Okene, dressed only in boxer shorts, recited a psalm his wife had sent him earlier by text message, sometimes called the Prayer for Deliverance. “Oh, God, by your name, save me. ... The Lord sustains my life.”

To this day, Okene believes his rescue after 72 hours underwater was the result of divine deliverance. The 11 other seamen aboard the tug Jascon 4 died.

On the video, there was an exclamation of fear and shock from Okene’s rescuers, and then joy as the realization set in that this hand belonged to a survivor. “What’s that? He’s alive! He’s alive!” a voice can be heard exclaiming.

“It was frightening for everybody,” Walker said of that moment, speaking in a telephone interview Tuesday. “For the guy that was trapped because he didn’t know what was happening. It was a shock for the diver while he was down there looking for bodies, and we (in the control room) shot back when the hand grabbed him on the screen.”

Walker said Okene couldn’t have lasted much longer.

“He was incredibly lucky. He was in an air pocket, but he would have had a limited time (before) ... he wouldn’t be able to breathe anymore.”

The full video of the rescue was released by DCN Diving after a request from The Associated Press. Initially, a shorter version of the rescue emerged on the Internet. The authenticity of the video was confirmed through conversations with DCN employees in the Netherlands. The video showing Okene was also consistent with additional photos of him on the rescue ship. The AP also contacted Okene, who confirmed the events.

Okene’s ordeal began around 4:30 a.m. on May 26. Always an early riser, he was in the toilet when the tug, one of three towing an oil tanker in Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta waters, gave a sudden lurch and then keeled over.

“I was dazed and everywhere was dark as I was thrown from one end of the small cubicle to another,” Okene said in an interview with Nigeria’s Nation newspaper after his rescue.

He groped his way out of the toilet and tried to find a vent, propping doors open as he moved. He discovered some tools and a life vest with two flashlights, which he stuffed into his shorts.

When he found a cabin of the sunken vessel that felt safe, he began the long wait, getting colder and colder as he played back a mental tape of his life — remembering his mother, his friends, but mostly his wife of five years, with whom he hadn’t yet fathered a child.

He worried about his colleagues — the Ukrainian captain and 10 Nigerians, including four young cadets from Nigeria’s Maritime Academy. They would have locked themselves into their cabins, standard procedure in an area stalked by pirates.

He got really worried when he heard a loud sound in the water outside — sharks or barracuda, he supposed — fighting over something big.

As the waters rose, he made a rack on top of a platform and piled two mattresses on top.

“I started calling on the name of God,” Okene told the Nation. “I started reminiscing on the verses I read before I slept. I read the Bible from Psalms 54 to 92. My wife had sent me the verses to read that night when she called me before I went to bed.”

He survived on a single bottle of Coke.

Okene really thought he was going to die, he said, when he heard the sound of a boat engine and an anchor dropping, but failed to get the attention of its crew. He figured, given the size of the sunken tugboat, that it would take a miracle for anyone to locate him. So he waded across the cabin, stripped the wall down to its steel body and banged on it with a hammer.

But “I heard them moving away. They were far away from where I was,” he said.

By the time the divers found him, relatives already had been told there were no survivors.

Using hot water to warm him up, the rescue crew attached Okene to an oxygen mask. He was put into a decompression chamber and then safely returned to the surface.

Before the slow ascent began, a voice on the video could be heard asking Okene to give a thumbs up if he understood what was about to happen. Slowly he raised his hand and stuck out his thumb.

“Good job, my friend. Well done,” the voice says. “You are a survivor.”
Source:http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/dec/03/nigerian-man-survived-3-days-at-bottom-of-atlantic/

EGRESS: i need d book pls. My mail: mostowall@gmail.com thank u very much, u'r wonderful and blessing to person like me.

This is the link http://www.amazon.com/Nontechnical-Petroleum-Exploration-Drilling-Production/dp/087814823X

Congratulations Nigerians! We can all see what excellence means in the way these Golden Eaglets displayed their God- given talents today. I am proud to be in Nigeria where these boys are groomed for success.From the coaching crew to the players on the bench are extra-ordinary.In all their matches so far they have been superlative and their goal-scoring skills are Waooooooh.They attacked their opponents like bees.

Thanks for showing love.Is there is anything you can do to get closer and closer to him to always get him engaged.Drug addiction steals,kills and destroys.Now. that it has taken over every fabric of his entire being,you should seek medical expert for him, because he would never look for one.Whenever he takes it, is as if he is at zenith of his life's fulfillment.Whatever is the outcome from the doctor should be followed religiously and@poster.You got a big role to play here by constantly monitoring him by encouraging with good words and praying fervently for him.When he is delivered, he would never forget you.Do not allow him to die.

lipstick 1: Life is too short. I know you are disappointed but please let it go.

Do you think there will be trust in the marriage again?

@Funkybaby I have read your comments in response to other Nairalanders. It seems you are not getting it at all.You keep abuse everybody.We are on this forum to enlighten ourselves about the life issues.You are so strong headed that you posting abuses on all people replies to your illogical and immature comments.Things do not work like that..Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.Change now or else!

Ujujoan: I also don't agree with her PoV . . . but I didn't rain insults on her or curse her future . . .

Thanks you for you warm response. Deep down in me, I was not raining curses on her. I have discovered in life. some vital things we cannot push aside when it comes the issue of marriage.One of the things is the issue of trust which is the pillar holds any marriage together. Transparency should be the watch-word,not hidden from each other.In marriage when there is concrete agreement of how things should work out in a marriage,there would peace.There is no way peace can reign if both are having secrect here and there.

Ujujoan: What's the meaning of this

The fact that you don't agree with her doesn't give you the right to talk like this abeg~

Do you think marriage is child play.I pity some of you, that are not really facing reality.Can two work together except they agree.You want husband by fire by force, but you want to do things your own way. Woman! it would never work.

funkybaby: why do i need my man's permission before i build a house

of course i will inform him before i start but that does not constitute seeking his permission.

its my hard earned money and i can spend it however it pleases me as long as I do not put my finances or the family in jeopardy

Are you married? If yes, your marriage may not last based on your comment.That is why there are countless marriageable women outside there always looking good husbands.Some will never find because God knows their wicked intentions,let them fast and pray till kingdom come, nothing will happen.They will seek but not find.

Do not send her out.But do not ever trust her any more.Some women are so callous to the extent that they can do anything to hurt you.The reason being that they are weak-minded species, they do not think deeply before doing anything, they are more emotional than being logical.All the children she has for you, may not all be yours.If a woman have children for you and have been in a marriage for many years, she can still poison you.I read recently a married pregnant woman having a sexual relationship with her in an hotel.How do you explain that.

teebcool: yh right, blame it on the government.. .. .True Nigerian

So is Fashola that will clean your enviroments for you.Some Nigerians always lack sense of responsibility,whenever anything happens,they call on government even the problems they are capable to solve.
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dridowu: Basic hygiene can go a long way inorder to ensure prevent ds outbreak of cholera do u read the entire news @ all ?

So is Fashola that will clean your enviroments for you.Some Nigerians always lack sense of responsibility,whenever anything happens,they call on government even the problems they are capable to solve.