What Can You Do To Prevent Stretch Marks

Hello, welcome to part one of how to prevent stretch marks. Well according to my wife and daughter nobody wants to develop stretch marks. My daughter says pregnancy is bad enough. She and her friend run a club each week in our lounge called “exercise during pregnancy” I believe I have mentioned this before, they spend a great deal of time talking about all aspects of pregnancy and the awaited arrival of the baby.

Their topics are rife with words that begin differently like preventing, prevention, skin care product, removal, get rid of, and guess what they all finish the same with stretch marks. To be fair to them they also have a moan about all the negatives of pregnancy, the constant trips to the toilet, backache, nausea and tiredness. Then there’s dry skin, skin care products, baby clothes and of course how much weight they’ve gained.

So actually that’s quite a lot of words, far more than you will ever find on the golf course. We do use some funny terms though, like, lining up the third putt. All this really means is that you are having a bad hole. It just possible that I have wandered away from the subject of how to prevent stretch marks, I wonder why. Maybe I have ADD.

A good tip for prevention, (just in case I am confusing you, we are talking about stretch marks again), is to eat a well balanced nutritional diet and drink plenty of water. Water is crucial to healthy skin. If you think that drinking coffee, tea or other manufactured beverages and believe these are desirable substitutes for the natural water need of your body, then this is a terrible mistake.

Be aware that to prevent stretch marks, it must be water; it is true that these other drinks contain water but they also include a dehydrating agent, which dehydrate the water they are dissolved in, and additionally the reserves of your body. This causes your skin to be dehydrated and dry and adds to the risk of stretch marks forming during pregnancy.

My daughter and her friends have been experimenting with different stretch mark creams and skin care products containing cocoa butter and Vitamin E in an attempt to prevent stretch marks. There are plenty of creams containing these ingredients claiming to prevent, reduce and get rid of stretch marks. Always massage them well into the skin as this stimulates the circulation, speeding up the action of the cream. You might want to experiment and see what works for you. It always takes a few weeks for cream to take effect. I will let you know the results but I hear that Trilastin does the trick.