{"id":457414,"date":"2025-12-31T01:52:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/12\/31\/skin-bleaching-delays-wound-healing-process\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T01:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:52:05","slug":"skin-bleaching-delays-wound-healing-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/12\/31\/skin-bleaching-delays-wound-healing-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin bleaching delays wound healing process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/584\/58438252.295.jpg\" alt=\"File photo of a woman who has bleached her skin\" title=\"File photo of a woman who has bleached her skin\" width=\"295\" height=\"366\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>File photo of a woman who has bleached her skin<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">Dermatologist and Founder of Skin Foundation, Dr Kofi Ansah Brifo, has revealed that indulging in skin bleaching disrupts the skin\u2019s ability to heal itself. Bleaching makes one prone to slow healing of wounds, he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr Brifo, patients tend to blame the doctor if their wounds or injuries are not healing quickly enough.<\/p>\n<p>They ignore the fact that layers of the skin have been peeled off, leaving the bleached skin exposed to all kinds of risks, which slows down the healing process.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the GTV Breakfast Show on Tuesday, December 30, 2025, Dr Brifo explained that the potency of steroids in some products affects the collagen, which helps with healing.<\/p>\n<p>He added that surgeries are difficult to perform on bleached skin and cautioned the public to put a stop to bleaching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone gets involved in an accident and is brought to the emergency room, and you can\u2019t even perform surgery on this person because the skin has been bleached,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo of a woman who has bleached her skin Dermatologist and Founder of Skin Foundation, Dr Kofi Ansah Brifo, has revealed that indulging in skin bleaching disrupts the skin\u2019s ability to heal itself. Bleaching makes one prone to slow healing of wounds, he said. According to Dr Brifo, patients tend to blame the doctor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":457415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Skin bleaching delays wound healing process - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/12\/31\/skin-bleaching-delays-wound-healing-process\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Skin bleaching delays wound healing process - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"File photo of a woman who has bleached her skin Dermatologist and Founder of Skin Foundation, Dr Kofi Ansah Brifo, has revealed that indulging in skin bleaching disrupts the skin\u2019s ability to heal itself. 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