Treatment of lipomas with allopathy

In general, lipoma is left untreated because there is no known method of treating it or because it does not cause any known harm.

Doctors and patients opt for surgical removal if there is a large or small single lipoma and if it disturbs functioning. For small lipomas, nowadays, liposuction is often preferred due to minimal scarring. But most of the large ones are excised only with incisions.

Even when removed there are usually recurrences. Liposuction has more recurrence rate due to left residuals, whereas in surgical incisional removal, since it is removed completely, including the capsule, the recurrence rate is less.

Homeopathic treatment for lipomas

Lipoma is a cosmetic illness. Does surgical excision cures the condition? No. So, never go for surgical options to get it removed unless it gives any persistent symptoms due to localized pressure. Usually surgical removal causes it to spread to other places for unknown reasons. So surgeons never assure non recurrence in the same or other places.

Even though nobody thinks of homeopathy for lipomas, considering it as a pure surgical disorder, homeopathy can treat lipoma very effectively. Homeopathic treatment easily arrests new lipoma formation and continued growth of existing lipomas. Also there will be reduction in size of the lipoma to residuals, i.e., swelling gets softened and flattened, so that visibility can be reduced. Better results can be attained if treatment is started earlier - just after the diagnosis.

If lipoma is in initial stages, it will disappear completely. The treatment procedure will be a slow but gradual and continuous process.

In homeopathy, removal of lipoma by surgery is considered removal of the effects of the disease and not removal of the cause or disease itself. So, there will be recurrence of the lipoma. Homeoapthy treatment can abort this tendency of recurrence of lipomas by improving the immune system.

There are 22 homoeopathic medicines which give great relief in lipomas. However, the correct choice and the resulting relief is a matter of experience and right judgment on the part of the homeopathic doctor. The treatment is decided after thorough case taking of the patient. Thus homeopathy remedies of lipomas are tailor made unlike allopathy in which all patients receive the similar kind surgical procesures.

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A lipoma is a growth of fat cells in a thin fibrous capsule usually found just below the skin. Lipomas are the most common non cancerous tissue growth.

Incidence : Even though lipoma can occur in all ages, it is more commonly seen in the 3rd or 4th decade of life. Women suffer more than men; and usually from single lipoma than multiple lipomas. In the case of men, it is mostly multiple. The multiple occurence of lipoma is called adiposa dolorosa which can run in families. Childhood (congenital) lipomas are mostly inheritated and are rare.

Common sites : Lipoma can occur anywhere in the body. The common occurrence sites are fat depositing areas like nape of the neck, shoulder, back, trunk, buttocks, hips, thighs, arms, forearms and belly (abdomen muscles). Mostly lipoma is subcutaneous, but it can also occur in deeper tissues like subserous (liver, lungs, heart and so on), subsynovial (joints), submucous (oral, esophagus), subperitoneal (inside abdomen), intramuscular and so on.

The cause of lipomas is not completely understood, but the tendency to develop them is inherited. A minor injury may trigger the growth. Some people think that the lipoma is due to excess fat content of the body or obesity and so they keep on doing exercise and diet restriction to reduce weight. Even after reducing weight considerably, there won't be any change in the lipoma. Also, sometimes they are noticed with more visibility or prominence than before, since they might have been in the fat. So being overweight does not cause lipomas.

Lipomas usually :

• are small (0.4 inches to 1.2 inches) and felt just under the skin
• are movable and have a soft, rubbery consistency
• do not cause pain
• remain the same size over years or grow very slowly

Often the most bothersome symptom is the location or increased size that makes the lipoma noticeable by others.

A lipoma can usually be diagnosed by its appearance alone. If there is any doubt your doctor may do other tests such as removal of a tissue sample (biopsy) for examination in a laboratory to make sure the growth is noncancerous.