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Every month, nearly 50,000 people Google the question, "How to get rid of stretch marks?"
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The Latin name we doctors refer to stretch marks is striae gravidarum. Striae for linear patterns, slight ridges, or grooves on the surface in part to a more extensive collection with similar parallel features. Gravidarum - just means a woman with child aka pregnant.
Stretch marks don’t just occur to females during pregnancy.
When the skin’s resilience is compromised, cutaneous changes in the skin, which happen anywhere there tends to be considerable amounts of stored fat.
