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Sagging Skin Treatments

As people age, there is an evident reduction in the elasticity of skin, which leads to loose sagging skin.

Age however, is not the main factor in all cases of sagging skin. Young people can also suffer from sagging skin. This may be caused due to sudden loss in weight. This is because when a person put on a significant amount of weight, the skin stretches to give way to the increased weight or fat tissues. After severe weight loss, what happens is that the skin fails to tighten back. Thus, it hangs or sags.

There are diverse reasons for this condition but more often than not, methods of prevention are fairly the same. Nevertheless, young people can regain their skin's elasticity faster or easier than older people.

One way to prevent loose sagging skin is through regular exercise and healthy balanced diet. There are food types, which contain nutrients, vitamins and minerals that help in tightening the skin. These include foods rich in vitamins A, C, and E. To speed up the effects of these vitamins in your skin, you can directly take vitamin supplements. Foods rich in zinc are good for the skin as well. Vitamins A, C, E as well as zinc aid to form collagen, which along with keratin, bring about skin strength and elasticity. Essential fatty acids, which are present in most vegetables as well as fish oil firm up skin, since they build skin cell walls. Drinking lots of water, is great for hydrating the skin and flushes away toxins also.

There are numerous creams or topical lotions available over the counter of most pharmacies and beauty stores or in derma clinics. These are generally advertised as skin firming or tightening creams and lotions. Most of which have the similar formulation and ingredients found in masks used by spa treatment clinics, thus are very useful in reducing not only cellulites or the sight of loose sagging skin, but tightens or firms up the skin as well. These products generally mark sag-prone areas such as the neck, arms, belly, thighs, and hips.

Laser surgery or surgical treatments are the last option of people who have problematic sagging skin. Liposuction is the most common treatment, where excess fat from the body is removed and then the loose skin is tucked and tightened. There are different types of tightening cosmetic surgeries such as abdominoplasty or the so-called 'tummy tuck', which immediately results into a flat and tightened stomach as it removes loose skin from the lower abdomen and tightens the skin of the upper abdomen in the process. In addition, there is also, what is called as brachioplasty or arm tightening or contouring. Brachioplasty eliminates the excess skin tissue along the inner arm and thus reduces the circumference of the upper arm.

Whatever method or treatment is used in preventing sagging skin, the result will depend on the amount of extra or loose skin. It depends on how loose the supporting skin tissues have become and how long the skin was stretched, how much it was stretched.The result also depends on the amount of elastin in a person's skin and, of course, the age since as cited earlier the younger one can regain the skin elasticity faster