In the summer heat, you can’t even wear a cool sleeveless dress! Arms, thighs on the skin there is a grain of skin color or red bumps, can not bear to look at, touch like acne, can not help but use your hands to squeeze, but also can squeeze out some white stuff …… How to deal with, in order to brighten my skin original color? What is “chicken skin”? The so-called “chicken skin”, the scientific name is called keratosis pilaris, also known as keratosis pilaris or tinea versicolor, is a chronic follicular keratosis pilaris. Keratosis pilaris is a follicular keratosis pilaris skin disease mostly caused by heredity. The disease is most prevalent in people with dry skin from childhood through adolescence, and the rash slowly and gradually fades with age. The disease is due to keratinization of the follicular opening, which affects the growth of sweat hair. Therefore, the surface of the skin is not smooth to the touch, like goose bumps, in fact, in each small papule there is a curly hair. There is no cure for this disease, but appropriate application of some drugs can improve the condition. So what does standard chicken skin actually look like? Start by finding a chicken skin granule on your body. There is usually varying degrees of redness around the granule; at the top of the granule is a gray-brown or grayish-white cone-shaped keratin plug, which is formed by concentrated sebum secretions and follicular epithelial cells gathered around the hair, so you can see a tiny white fuzz in the middle of the pitifully curled up. Picking off this keratin plug leaves a tiny dimple at the top of the granule. So is this the solution to chicken skin? Don’t dream, kid. The keratin can’t be picked off, it grows again in a few days. These granules occur at the mouth of each hair follicle, do not fuse with each other, and persist in scattered clusters, resembling the appearance of “chicken skin”, hence the name “chicken skin”. “Is chicken skin a health hazard? About half of the world’s population has keratosis pilaris, so you’re not alone. Keratosis pilaris is an autosomal dominant disorder, but not everyone who carries the gene will get chicken skin. That is, you can’t blame the government for a bad life, just the genes. Genetic disease? Then could it have other dangers?! Calm down. In most cases, keratosis pilaris is a stand-alone condition that causes no other health problems. However, there are a few patients who may have a combination of common ichthyosis, atopic dry skin disease, and a host of rare and bizarre syndromes with multi-system involvement. But don’t worry, if you really want to have those syndromes, you think you can still live to sit in front of the computer and watch the years go by. Can “chicken skin” be improved? Yes, it can. “Chicken skin” is a genetically caused by the body, with this body, the keratin around the hair follicles will be thickened, resulting in the mouth of the hair follicle is too thick keratin clogging, the formation of a grain of small bumps. Skin keratin thickening, “chicken skin” also appears to be more serious, and some will even show the symptoms of “ichthyosis” – this sounds like a very scary, but in fact it is only extreme dryness! caused by extreme dryness, so that the skin presents like a piece of fish scale like uneven skin color, many people present this symptom is not aware of it. In addition, “chicken skin” is also related to vitamin A deficiency, you can take vitamin AD pills. Oral vitamin A or eat more food rich in vitamin A on this disease has some help; in addition, the topical use of skin keratin softening or keratolytic agent, can reduce the symptoms, so that the surface of the skin becomes relatively smooth. Such as topical retinoic acid, salicylic acid ointment, etc., retinoic acid application should start from a low concentration, such as from 0.05% to 0.1%, in order to avoid skin irritation. “Chicken skin” away from daily life so do gentle exfoliation because “chicken skin” and keratin thickening related, so gentle exfoliation is necessary, but must not be excessive. There are many ways to exfoliate, including using body wash with scrub particles in the shower, and rubbing the body with a bath sponge or bath ball, all of which have the effect of exfoliating the skin. Only, every day so wash, will make the already very dry “chicken skin” can not stand, and become thinner and drier, in turn, will stimulate “chicken skin” become more powerful. Our skin’s keratin renewal cycle for 28-45 days, so so fierce exfoliation, 1-1/2 months to do once enough. A gentler way to exfoliate is to use bath salts (table salt also has exfoliating properties, but the sodium in it dries out the skin, and people with “chicken skin” are better off using Dead Sea bath salts with moisturizing properties). Bath salts can be used in the bath, or bath salts can be dissolved in hot water, and then mixed in a plant-based body lotion (more chemical agents in the shower milk will have a chemical reaction with the bath salts), used in the shower. Rose and sandalwood essential oils can also be added to the bath with bath salts to exfoliate and moisturize the skin at the same time. Many people think that taking a shower every day is a good habit, but it is not good for “chicken skin”. Shower gel can also remove a certain degree of old keratin, but also may be too much to wash away the oil, so, “chicken skin” people in winter 2, 3 days to take a shower is enough, or every day only use water to take a shower, without shower gel. Moisturizing is more important than exfoliating, is to moisturize the skin. “Chicken skin” is very dehydrated and very lack of oil skin, with the general body lotion will not be moisturized enough, and should be used in the pharmacy to sell the body lotion formulated specifically for extremely dry skin, such as Yi Quan extreme moisturizing body lotion, Skin Spa camping moisturizing body cream, Vyse nutritional body cream, and so on. When taking a bath, you should also use moisturizing cleansing products, such as Skin Spa Nourishing Soap and Avène Soapless Moisturizing Soap. Another key point is that the temperature of the water in the bath must be kept at about 40 degrees Celsius. In winter, many people like to use hot water, think this is comfortable enough. But hot water is very easy to “oil”, but also too much to wash away the skin oil; and when the body leaves the hot water, the skin surface water will immediately evaporate, but also take away the skin’s moisture. This is for “chicken skin” are “worse” things. If you have the money and leisure, go to the SPA to enjoy the body moisturizing care, is also a very good way to improve the “chicken skin”. Want to speed up is not enough a grain of “chicken skin” will make people want to “get rid of it quickly”, but with the hands of squeezing, scratching, gouging, will make the tissues around the pores edema, so that the pore openings become smaller, easier to block, will produce acne, folliculitis; if scratched, will cause inflammation and pigmentation, and will also be able to make the skin more comfortable. More will cause inflammation and pigmentation. So don’t scratch. Supplementation of vitamin AD and coarse grains through the intake of vitamin A in the conversion to the skin to play a role in fact is very difficult, because through the enzyme, all kinds of unstable transformation process finally reached the skin of vitamin A is afraid that no longer exist. However, consuming more vitamin A foods is still good for the skin and good for the body, and it is important to remember that you need to eat vitamin A foods in combination with fats or minerals, because it is oil-soluble and has to be in oil to work. Vitamin A is abundant in carrots, cod liver oil, pig liver, and spinach. And natural vitamin A is only found in animal foods such as: animal liver, eggs, cream and cod liver oil; carotene contained in plants enters the body and can be converted to vitamin A in the liver (1 mg carotene = 0.167 mg vitamin A). Vitamin A promotes growth and development, protects night vision, and may increase resistance to disease and cancer. Vitamin A deficiency can lead to growth retardation, stunted growth and night blindness in children, but it is important not to ingest too much to avoid chronic poisoning. Red and yellow vegetables, fruits and leafy greens contain more carotene. As long as attention is paid to the choice of food, not partiality, to meet the needs of the day of vitamin A is not difficult, but for breastfeeding mothers, infants and some other special people, completely from the food to meet the needs of the more difficult, can be used to add the cod liver oil, but pay attention to the dosage should not be too much. In order to prevent seasonal deficiency in the north, it is best to eat more carotene-rich vegetables during the season when there are leafy greens, so that there is some storage in the body.