My latest dermo bout has been on my hands and lips. (Eyes, neck and armpits are fine this time.
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I don’t think my skin has ever split. It just gets dry and scaly. Not flaky like dandruff. More like, the epidermis (which is made of dead skin cells) that would normally flake off decides to stick around in extra layers.
Here’s what I’ve found after years of drinking kava:
1) Staying hydrated is the nambawan way to keep your skin healthy. Don’t worry about your epidermis, cause it’s just a replacable outer armor made of dead cells. Hydrate for your LIVING cells underneath.
2) dermo always looks worse after bathing.
3) as long as your skin isn’t split, a mild exfoliation followed by some moiusturizer will make you look normal just fine.
4) don’t rub your eyes! Styes are rather uncomfortable. When you think you might rub your eye, just imagine what it would be like to have a hard painful unpoppable pimple right on the edge of your eyelid, and don’t rub yer dang eyes.
5) dermo always gets worse before it gets better. There are a million stories about how dermo got worse after quitting kava cold turkey. I say: don’t quit kava. Instead, drink a shell of pure water for every shell of kava, in addition to all the water you should be already drinking. I much prefer being known at the guy who has to pee 99 times a day than the kava skin guy.