KP Symtom

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Originally posted by Cpiotraczk@aol.com

I was diagnosed with KP a while back. It covers a large portion of my legs, arms, back and chest. I am a 24 year old male. Recently I have been getting large pimple like bumps on some areas of my body. I was curious if anyone else has encountered this with KP?

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Originally posted by Minipops

I have KP over most of my body, and yes i've had those pimple like bumps. Infact they are exactly that, a infected hair folicle. If a hair gets pulled out or falls out on it's own, your skin will grow over the folicle opening, or get plugged with dead skin, and when the hair begins to re-grow, it can't get out because of the plug, and it gets bound up inside and often causes an infection. Or sometimes the hair is out from under the skin and you get an infection anyways. Pretty common considering all your hair folicles are plugged....sometimes dirt gets trapped inside and creates an infection....aka a pimple or zit.

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Originally posted by Kim

Once in a while I do get those, usually somewhere on my legs where I have KP. They hurt too!

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Originally posted by Samara

Actually yes, that's started to happen to me recently...only on the backs of my arms where the KP is.

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Originally posted by Sally

and why does that happen to us??...the people with normal skin...how does their skin work and how come the skin doesnt grow over the hair folliciles for them?

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Originally posted by Sally

and why does that happen to us??...the people with normal skin...how does their skin work and how come the skin doesnt grow over the hair folliciles for them?