vitamin A
Posted by taintedlove908 on Oct 02, 2009 · Member since Sep 2009 · 1060 posts
Hey there. I just figured out that these bumps that I've had on my arms for several years now are keratosis pilaris.. Anyways, it says one of the causes is a vitamin A deficiency, which could very well be in my case. My question for you all is how do you find enough vitamin A in your diet? What are your favorite things including it?
Carrots! ;)b Vitamin A is quite easy to get, so you should be able to incorporate it easily now that you know! Other great veg sources are: Sweet potatoes, mangoes, dried apricots, cantaloupe (notice that they're all orange), as well as spinach. I actually keep an online food diary on a lot of days, and I usually get at least 3,000% on the daily minimum for vitamin A - probably because I'm veg & eat so many things containing it.
Sidenote (sort of): I have had tiny little bumps like this on my upper arms for pretty much my whole life, but never knew what they were called. Mine aren't as bad as a lot of the pictures on Google, but they're there, nonetheless. Mine are allergy-related. I used to have them (also minorly) on my cheeks when I was little, which I forgot about until right now! I also have eczema (really dry, itchy skin) that flares up around allergy season. Do you know that you don't have allergies?
I used to have little red bumps on my upper arms too. I never knew why, but I haven't noticed them in a long time. Maybe I've upped my Vitamin A count.
I used to have little red bumps on my upper arms too. I never knew why, but I haven't noticed them in a long time. Maybe I've upped my Vitamin A count.
I was just reading about these bumps, and Wiki says that they are common in up to 80% of adolescents. Maybe you just grew out of them?
I do have massive allergies, but these bumps don't seem to go away. Mine aren't as bad as the google images that popped up either, luckily, but they are still bothersome to me, especially when I get annoyed and pick at them and then look like some meth head who's been scratching at imagined bugs or something.
I never heard vitamin A deficiency for a cause of this. I always thought it had to do with shaving (I get them most often on my thighs, where I'd shaved. Whatever I hadn't shaved or lt grow out for a while didn't have them) and curly hairs (-> ingrown hairs). I have them just a little bit on the back of my arms too.
Either way, most of the time for me it's carrots, though bell pepper, pumpkin, kabocha, yams, and mango are also good sources. Carrot is probably the most dense source though.
Yes, these Vitamin A sources won't do you much good if you don't have the omega-fatty-acids with it (since Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin). Eggs could be a solution as well as Avocados and of course, various oils.