Stretch marks are the effect of the body mounting much more rapidly than the skin is mounting or else if the skin is being prolonged much faster than the limit of the skin’s stretching. In medicinal language, stretch marks are referred to as some of the following: striae atrophicans, striae distensae, striae Alba, as well as striae rubra.

A few of the actions and life proceedings that increase your possibility of getting stretch marks are growth spurts, bodybuilding, pregnancy, and unexpected weight gain. Heavy use of contemporary corticosteroid ointments has also been accounted to give birth to the stretch marks.

The additional adrenal cortical procedures amongst the patients with Cushing’s syndrome have as well been originated to result in stretch marks.

These marks are usually narrow and long indiscretions emerging on the skin. They are red once they first put in an appearance, but in due course, they progressively take on a light silver color. In a few cases they may be as extensive as ten millimeters, but they are in general narrower and not longer than one or two centimeters each. You can even get rid of them by taking an advice from the doctor.