I have seen on this site that you can treat each spot with either ACV or Hydrogen Peroxide but since they are on my back and I have so many that is not practical.
I am on a mission to find the CAUSE so that I can treat my body as a whole... I am wondering if it might be related to candida or a fungus!??
Any feedback would be so appreciated as I am too young to have to hide my back!!
Replied by Douggy (Dar-es-salaam) on 09/09/2013
Hi Lailainlalaland, if it's just one or two.. Or even three, it's okay to treat just topically with ACV with the 'mother', or with H2O2 maybe 30%, and intensive moisturizing ofcourse, plus, knowing your allergens to keep away from them! But when it's that many, on your back, I think I'd say it's safe to see a GIT specialist as this may be a sign of something. The fewer ones are safe to treat topically, but also to prevent more from occuring, I'd suggest intensive 'for-life' moisturizing with stuff like Glycolic acid, yes, or Urea 20% with 3% Salicylic acid (keratolytic) or with just some good Coconut body butter. Look for something your dry hungry skin can feast on after you expose it to aggressive acids! For sure you also need to identify foods you're allergic to and stop eating them, eg. people with Celiac disease, most don't know they are allergic to Gluten protein, they eat wheat etc all the time, and they use cosmetic products with wheat all the time. If such have Keratosis pilaris or this Seborrheic keratosis, they should stop gluten as one way to treat their skin, and do the topical stuff. But dont do just the topical stuff and not check that what you eat is good for you. Even add some Multivits if you have to. But again, if you have many on your back, just see a doctor. Google Leser-Trelat Sign (rapid onset of multiple seborrheic keratoses). My friend is gluten-intolerant, and has had KP and one SK lesion at various parts of her body mostly exposed to sun since young age (she wouldn't get an SK bump on medial parts of her limbs or parts usually covered from sun exposure). I dont know why they call it senile. Maybe for seniors it doesn't matter whether you're in the sun or not, if you inherited it, you get it. My friend is a doctor, so that's where I got all this stuff from. Thanks also for this thread guys, I'll tell her about this thread. It's good stuff here. Good luck every1.Replied by Lisa (Australia) on 06/11/2014
I have developed quite a few of these ugly skin monsters over the past year. They start out as very large dark patches and then they gradually become like a wart underneath. I have two on my arms and a concentration of them on the front inside and outside of my upper thighs. I heard that having them in that location is linked to female reproductive health problems, which I have. It is also interesting to now read they are linked to Gluten intolerance as I have recently developed this and lactose intolerance and have been put on what they call a low fodmap diet. I hope it prevents future growths.Replied by Anon (Not Canada) on 10/21/2020
She mentioned they started out as large dark patches. I never had dark patches of skin on my face until I applied DEET (i posted about this elsewhere on the site) to combat mosquitoes, and neglected to wash it off as soon as possible. The patches are where the DEET was applied in greater concentration.
I put drops of 5% iodine on them and let the iodine dry up so as to kill the top layer of skin. It scabs and peels off after about three days leaving nice pink skin underneath, but they come back - possibly from sun exposure.
I have read that zinc oxide cream has removed dark spots. Selenium, too.
