There is no most effective way to remove chicken skin on the legs, it can be left untreated or relieved by topical medications, oral medications, or lasers.
Chicken skin generally refers to perifollicular keratosis, which is a chronic follicular keratosis skin disease, there will be normal skin color or light reddish pimples, chicken skin-like appearance, if it is not serious, it can be left untreated.
1. Topical medications: commonly used medications are mainly retinoic acid cream and tazarotene gel, you can also use urea cream, salicylic acid ointment, cod liver oil ointment, etc. to soften the keratinization, and at the same time, use petroleum jelly ointment, vitamin E cream and so on to keep the skin moist. If the inflammatory reaction of the skin lesions is heavy, medium-acting glucocorticosteroids can be used, such as tretinoin cream and mometasone furoate cream.
2. Oral medication: Oral vitamin A, vitamin E or small doses of retinoic acid can be taken.
3. Laser treatment: If the effect is not good through the above methods, you can use laser to relieve the symptoms.
If you want to remove the chicken skin on the legs, you should go to a regular hospital, for the need to use medication to strictly follow the doctor’s instructions to use, avoid self-medication.