When prevention is overlooked pregnancy, body building, rapid weight gain and even rapid growth become a usual factor that generates stretch marks.

Stretch marks are caused by anomalous hormone activity. You don't have to be a pregnant woman or have weight problems to get them. As a matter of fact, it is a very common skin condition, but most people who have them are ashamed and try to hide them.

Stretch Mark Related Causes:

* Pregnancy

* Teenage growth spurts

* Rapid weight fluctuations

* Long term lacking of certain nutrients

* Unexpected change in physical or environmental conditions

* Some medication may also cause stretch marks, especially steroids related medications.

The real problem is that the body sends the wrong information about skin development. This leads skin to produce insufficient quantities of collagen and elastin, which conform the connective tissue of skin. When connective tissues are not strong enough to endure over-stretching they break apart and stretch marks are formed.

Although in several cases they seem to just appear overnight this isn't necessarily true. They start from deep skin tissues and slowly progress to the skin's surface.

Stretch marks happen to fat and thin, men and women, young and old. In most cases they don't cause harm or irritate the skin so a lot of people don't even notice them until they are in plain sight.

In the beginning stage of development they are a pinkish or faint red color. The pinkish coloring is because the micro blood vessels break open and bleed. These scars generally evolve to a pale silvery white which is the final step of their developement.

Most people think that stretch marks are not curable because they are so difficult to erase. As a matter of fact, most specialists will even tell you: just live with them, they are not curable. But why would they say something like that if there is a way to treat them? Maybe they just don't care enough or maybe in a doctor's eyes stretch marks are not a serious problem because they don't really cause any real physical discomfort

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