Treatment for Keratosis Pilaris-Understanding Your Choices

Treatment for Keratosis Pilaris, also known as KP

, is often times unnecessarily complicated for people when there really is no reason for it to be so. If you suffer from Keratosis Pilaris you know how baffling treating this skin condition can be. Never fear for KP can be treated and controlled once you find out what works for you. From expensive prescriptions to home remedies and everything in between there are a multitude of ways to get your KP under control.

For those who don't know much about Keratois Pilaris it is a very common skin disorder that affects approx. 40% of adults and often shows itself as tiny, rough red bumps on the backs of your arms and legs. KP is strictly cosmetic and causing no adverse health problems. KP just happens to be quite unsightly and often makes people very self-conscious about their appearance. Treatment for Keratosis Pilaris most often involves exfoliating and moisturizing on a very consistent basis, usually daily.

What you choose to moisturize and exfoliate with is what usually takes most people the longest to figure out since everyone's skin reacts differently. DERMAdoctor makes a very popular treatment for Keratosis Pilaris. The kit uses a body scrub with special chemical and physical exfoliating ingredients that you use in the shower or bath and a specific moisturizing cream that you apply to the affected areas once you are finished in the shower. Another very popular kit comes from Glytone, their kit includes an exfoliating body wash and exfoliating puff as well as a moisturizing body lotion.

There are also some really great and effective home remedies and other over the counter lotions that you can use as well as going to your doctor and seeing what they advise. Home remedies are becoming a more and more popular treatment for Keratosis Pilaris as they are generally much less expensive and focus on using all natural ingredients that you have around the house or can easily get at your local stores.

Treatment for Keratosis Pilaris-Understanding Your Choices

By: Chad Orzen

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