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Ive suddenly started to get folliculitis on my legs. Suddenly one day..boom.. 10 big folliculitis. Ive never had this before. Ive recently added ghee to my diet. Do you think that ghee can cause this? (Its grass fed ghee from iherb.)

I mostly eat grass fed meat, a lot of fish (farmed salmon, macrell, sardines) and veggies. recently I also added a lot more coconut oil.

I think its something I eat that is the cause, because it came so sudden.

Do you have any advice? Or anyone experienced something similar?

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Weird, I get that from nuts. The only way you can know is to cut the ghee out and see if it goes away. – Bread-Eating Beelzebub Aug 23 2011 at 13:07

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Wow, I just googled it and this is exactly what I got a week ago. I will observe more closeley how it could be connected to my food intake. I think I added butter at that time, but I am not sure. – Primordial Aug 23 2011 at 13:37

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I tend to get this from n6 and uncontrolled blood sugar. Which seems related to various skin conditions that I have had (rashes, dandruff). All clear now that I'm off the cookies and Fritos. Cordain's hypothesis is that dairy causes acne, but I don't see how ghee would be an issue. But Melissa's advice is sage, cut the ghee - see what happens. – Dave S. Aug 23 2011 at 13:37

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i am doubful that it's the ghee. you probably came in contact with staph. – g. Aug 23 2011 at 13:44

I got some dry skin and tendencies to folliculitis when I started eating a lot of coconut fat. I just lowered my intake for a couple of days untill it got away, and increased it more gradually. Today, I have no problems unless I eat more than 140g a day for 2 or more days. – Lars Nov 12 2011 at 3:46

Bill · Answer 1 · 2011-08-23 19:44:08Z UTC

As someone who went paleo to heal folliculitis, and did, I can tell you it's probably not the ghee. Are you using some kind of soap or lotion? Have you taken antibiotics, any other medications recently?

My chronic folliculitis ended up being a combo of that and seb. dermatitis. Topicals would clog the pores causing the folliculitis reaction. Paleo helped alot, but it didn't go away 100% until I stopped using any and all topicals. I struggled with this for 3-4 years on my face.

What is your environment like? Humid? Are you sweating alot and wearing tight clothing? Since your diet is so dialed in, I would guess that this is another factor, as mine was.

As grenadine said, it's possible you came in contact with staph too.

Do you have hypothyroidism or any other auto immune issue? This also can explain alot. If you are hypo you might need more vitamin A or some iodine. WHen I had VLC induced hypothyroidism, Iodoral and lots of natural Vitamin A helped. Still taking the Iodoral. Too much fat can be inflammatory for hypothyroid patients (read: can be, but not always). This can be something to think about with increased fat consumption.

I would also like to add that raw milk actually really helped my folliculitis...

air_hadoken · Answer 2 · 2011-08-23 15:59:54Z UTC

Butter intolerance certainly does exist. I cannot say whether it's the same for ghee. However, this question made me think of the final post on PaleoPepper, which is exactly about this issue (butter causing acne).

http://paleopepper.com/2011/06/shocking-and-liberating-developments/

Jack Kronk · Answer 3 · 2011-08-23 17:30:12Z UTC

It's highly unlikely that it's the ghee because it's almost 100% saturated fat with a little MUFA and O3. So you would need to be allergic to the fatty acid profiles within the ghee. Either that, or the minerals and/or vitamins in the fats. This why I believe it is not the ghee.

Milk or some kind of cheese or cream or butter is more likely. Ghee is the least likely of all 'dairies' to do this to you because it is the one dairy food that is virtually free of lactose and proteins.

folliculits from ghee?

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