keratosis pilaris? (bumps on the backs of your arms/thighs)

[Rachel Ernst]

keratosis pilaris (bumps on the backs of your arms/thighs)...

OK, my DH has bumps on the back of his arms. So, I'd like to know more about it.

My 5yo son also has a little bit of it, but I think it is because it is winter time--I will watch to see if it goes away in the summer. He had very dry hands but now that I got very regularly (90%) on him taking his teaspoon of CLO every day his hands are no longer dry. So, it seems if the arms were just dry skin, they might have cleared up by now.  He has no other symptoms whatsoever--I'm on this forum for me and for general knowledge. Fortunately my kids are quite healthy. The only other thing that I can say about my son is that he gets bloody noses at night, but not much if I run the humidifier each night. So, it's just these bumps that I'm wondering about.

Again, would like to know for DH. DH also has a whole history that I could post a long page on, even though he would say his only problem is overweight. I can see all the underlying reasons for why that might be:-)  One of those things is that over the years he has slowly developed cysts all over his body. They are not pre-cancerous - have had a standard doctor check them. But, this is clearly not optimal. Also, he did two rounds of Accutane (1 as teen, 1 as adult).

DH is not on CLO yet, but I can no longer accept that so I am starting with some Carlson's capsules. He hates getting the fish burps but will not take it on a spoon.

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[Yvonne LV]

The FCLO will help, but i believe it needs to be taken regularly every day for over a month to start seeing the benefits.

The patches I had on my upper arms went away after I stopped consuming all milk products for a couple of months (casein seems to be the trigger), along with taking the fish oil at a therapeutic dose for a couple of months before lowering it to a maintenance daily dose. Now I can consume dairy again, but not every day. There seems to be a threshold point for me and if I cross that by eating too much dairy, the kp starts to come back.

Link for explaining therapeutic dose of fish oil (scroll to bottom to see the table with amounts, etc) http://www.radiantrecovery.com/resourcecenter/omega3.htm

[Sarah Cortes]

http://gnowfglins.com/2010/11/08/rfqm-keratosis-pilaris/