Keratosis pilaris generally refers to perifollicular keratosis, which usually does not require treatment. If you feel that it affects your beauty, you can take medication and physical therapy to remove it.
1. Drug treatment: perifollicular keratosis is mainly manifested as normal skin color or reddish pimples with the appearance of chicken skin. Patients can use topical 0.1% retinoic acid cream and tazarotene and other drugs, or salicylic acid ointment, cod liver oil ointment, etc. to soften or dissolve keratin. In addition, oral vitamin A or a small dose of retinoic acid can also be taken to improve the symptoms.
2. Physical therapy: If the effect of medication is not satisfactory, you can also take laser treatment, using the laser’s thermal light principle to peel off and remove the keratinized plugs at the mouth of the hair follicle.
For patients with keratosis pilaris on the cheeks, if you want to deal with it, you should seek medical treatment and cooperate with the doctor to standardize the treatment. Drugs need to be used in accordance with the doctor’s instructions, do not self-medication.