Homeopathic treatment
Before delving into homeopathic treatment let us first discuss the conventional or allopathic treatment available.
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.
Homeopathy
Lipomas are tumors (swelling) which are a big cosmetic problem to a patient. Majority of the people are of the opinion that lipomas can only be cured with the help of surgery; however surgery only gives temporary relief from the localized symptoms caused by lipomas.
Often surgeons who advice surgery as a remedy to lipoma never assure non occurrence of the same. Surgical removal makes it spread to the different parts of the body for which the causes are still unknown.
This cosmetic problem makes patients anxious to get rid of them as early as possible. Probably that’s why they think of removing these lipomas surgically without thinking that this surgical removal causes it to spread to the other parts of the body. In this anxiety and hurriedness patients do not think of any other option.
If the treatment is started in the initial stages, the growths (fatty tumors) start diminishing in size and number.
Homeopathy medicines help in the following ways:
- The remedies make the growth soft.
- Treatment relieves localized symptoms like pain and pressure.
- With homeopathy the size starts reducing gradually.
- The growth starts becoming flat and gradually does not show above the skin.
Homoeopathy considers lipomas as a local expression of a systemic disturbance. So removing them surgically will not treat the defect in the system. The medicines act on the fat metabolism of the body, treats the defect which causes a lipoma and reinforces the metabolism so that the patient does not suffers again with lipomas in the future.
There are 22 medicines which give great relief. 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 remedies are tailor made unlike allopathy in which all patients receive the similar kind surgical procesures.
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What is a lipoma
A lipoma is a growth of fat cells in a thin fibrous capsule usually found just below the skin. They 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) 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 it 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.
Causes
The cause 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.
Symptoms
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.
How are lipomas diagnosed
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.