STRAWBERRY HEMANGIOMA


Serving Hamilton, Stoney Creek, Grimsby and surrounding areas.

 

Strawberry Hemangiomas:

  • Are usually not present at birth
  • Usually appear at two to four weeks of age as a flat pink patch
  • May rapidly increase in size and become a dark red colour, up until the age of 18 months to two
  • After the age of two, start to slowly disappear.
  • Fifty per cent have resolved by the age of five, ninety per cent will resolve by the age of nine.
  • Are more common in girls
  • Are more common in premature infants
  • Are usually of no danger
  • Are not due to any specific event during the pregnancy

Treatment

  • These lesions are usually only treated if they are causing a significant medical problem for the infant such as:
    • obstruction vision
    • obstruction of a nostril
    • interfering with breathing
    • chronic bleeding and infection
  • The best cosmetic outcomes result if strawberry hemangiomas are allowed to resolve spontaneously
  • Lasers, surgery, injections, and steroids have been used to shrink hemangiomas but all of these have risks associated with them.  Some of these treatments may produce more scarring, than if the hemangioma is left to resolve on its own.
  • It is usually best to leave strawberry hemangiomas alone and to wait for them to disappear on their own






























 

Strawbery Hemangioma - Face

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