HOW do you get rid of red bumps at top of your arms???

[mad4myboys]

I exfoliate etc but just cant shift it.I drink lots of water and eat well. My arms are nice and slim but am always hiding my arms esp now i want ti weat a tshirt

please any suggestions?

Is it a rash? Allergic reaction? Heatrash?
Does it look like this?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratosis_pilaris
If it looks like this then you are stuck with it im afraid.

Exfoliate. Moisterize and sun bed. If it's the same as the red bits me and DH get sometimes - the first two help a lot, but really you need a teeny bit of a tan to really make it go away.

According to The Food Doctors on TV (a nutritionalist and a medic) they can be made worse if you have an omega 3 fatty acid deficiency. So eating things like sardines or having ground flax seed on your cereal might help. Even if they don't, they are healthy things to eat, so no harm done.

Definately get on the fish oils, my DDs cleared up completely.

Ooh, I'm going to offer that solution to DH - I am alway stelling him he needs to eat his fish oils...!

Get pregnant.

I have this, and it only disappears when I am pregnant.

Get older.
I have always had keratosis pilaris badly...it has only improved since i've got older 40 plus i would say. It also got better with each pg.

They say it disappears as you get older. I always had it but always livind in Australia and had a tan. Since moving to the UK and being perpetually pale it is horrible and you can see the scars from when I was younger and picked at it. I have also read that people of celtic origin are most prone. Vitamin A tablets dont work. I have heard that sunbeds and zirtac does. Anyone tried this method?

Agree with littleotik - am pregnant and its gone.

I have in the past used this and it helped a lot.

Also fake tan seems to help disguise it.

creams with urea in them are supposed to help. Try Eucerin.

eucerin hasnt really worked. going to try aha's next. Maybe should just go the sunbed.

Try body brushing. You can get a bristle brush from the Body Shop. Its great for circulation and exfoliation, and I think eliminating toxins or something.

yes i also body brush havent noticed a diff during pregnancy. ds2 is 4 months but as im in tshirts im obv more aware of it..

Try Soap and Glory flake away its the only scrub that had ever shifted red bumps/dry skin on me and i have tried a lot.Plus it smells gorgeous.

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agree with bloss, mine go away when I exercise

Ds1 had this and no cream ever made a difference. A couple of months after he started taking EyeQ I noticed the dry skin had gone.

prob a stupid Q but the omega 3 tablets, i have some cod liver oil tablets that says omega 3 on the front, are these the same thing?

I use the body scrub gloves from body shop.

I have lovely upper arms, even if I do say so meselg

Pregnancy also completely cleared mine up (got that weird, unpronounceable thing in the link ). It's back now, but sunlight, regular exfoliation and a bit of fake tan reduce the appearance (although it doesn't completely go). Are you very fair skinned. Apparently it's common in ghosts pale people like me.

Cod liver oil should do it.

Pregnancy gets rid of mine too...

Sunshine and exfoliation makes a big difference to mine too. And I also find that moisturising it every day is really helpful - this feels more counterintuitive but exfoliating on its own can make me a bit dry and flaky!

I have this. I read that weight training helps as it increases the circulation (or something..) Anyway I lift small weights to tone my arms and I think it's improved loads, along with exfoliation and diet.

I have these too I always find them really ugly on myself, but I also know a few other women who have them too.

I'm Irish, so maybe that's something to do with it, as some people in previous posts said pale celtic skins get it badly... that's me screwed then