Hi and welcome. your skin looks very dry. Get some of that high end skin cream Sisiley or La Mer or even Keihls. They sell them at high end stores like Neiman Marcus. These creams can be really effective. Skin needs oil and maybe your not producing enough to keep your skin lubricated. Also get some of the skin sensitive bar soap thats hypo allergenic.
Those hairs that your complaining about are unavoidable. I get them also. It appears they are pubic hair that sprout up once and a while in our head area. I just pull them out.
Let us know how your doing.
Hi,
I am amazed that you said pubic hair! This is exactly what I also thought many times after pulling one of these hairs out and feeling the surface. They really have a texture like pubic hair. This is weird.
But I am definitely getting more of them. It's starting to even become a cosmetic issue. I really wonder what that is.
And is it normal to have that dry, wrinkly skin without much water exposure? I mean my arms hardly ever come in contact with water at all and still there are so dry and I also have a lot of ingrown hairs on my forearm and hyperkeratosis.
I am sure that there are reasons for this but obviously doctors don't know the explanation and then they simply say it's "harmless". This is disappointing.
Deficiency of vitamin A may lead to xeroderma (dry and scaly skin) and follicular hyperkeratosis (hair follicles contain an excessive amounts of keratin). Follicular hyperkeratosis is also known as phrynoderma. One of the listed mimics of ingrown hairs i found on a medical website - "phrynoderma (vitamin A deficiency)."
I forgot to add that vitamin A deficiency can cause coarse hair. Just to add, i found "dry scaly skin with hair follicles plugged with coiled distorted hairs and a red halo" is a listed symptom of vitamin C deficiency.
@ redstar
Thanks. I also heard before that vitamin A deficiency can cause hyperkeratosis. I even asked my dermatologist about vitamin deficiency and showed him my arm and asked him if I could have this and he looked at me like a retard and simply said Noooh. What a jerk. I can only shake my head at how little doctors seem to know about stuff like that. It's unbelievable.
I guess I will have to get my vitamins measured. Unfortunately the health insurance usually doesn't cover this. :(