Kim Kardashian Shares How She Gets a ‘Little Bit of Relief’ from ‘Painful’ Psoriasis Flare-Up

• Kim Kardashian was first diagnosed with psoriasis during an episode in 2011. Keeping up with the Kardashians
• The reality star uses cream and saran wraps to relieve “intense itching” during flare-ups
• He sometimes uses a tanning bed to treat skin conditions

Kim Kardashian talks about how she usually treats psoriasis attacks.

On Wednesday, the 43-year-old SKKN BY KIM founder posted a video to her Instagram Story showing how she found relief from worsening psoriasis: She puts cream on the rash, covers it with saran wrap and leaves it overnight.

“Okay, so if you want to see what I do to get some relief. I put the product in place and sleep in it and wrap it up and just rub it in,” she explained, showing how her leg looked better than the night before. “But this is one time and you’ve seen how crazy and dark this one place is and look how much better it is. It’s overnight, once wrapped in saran wrap. Isn’t that crazy?”

Kardashian noted at the time that sleeping with plastic all over her body can be “irritating” because of the noise, but the “heart-shaped” psoriasis flare-up on her lower leg has improved.

“My little heart-shaped psoriasis is still there, but one night of intensive cream and saran wrap changes everything,” she said. “Obviously it’s still there, but the intense itching goes away so I have to do it twice a week.”

Psoriasis is a chronic and incurable skin disease that causes a rash with itchy, scaly, and sometimes painful patches, according to the Mayo Clinic. It can be painful and interfere with sleep and other daily activities. The condition also tends to go through cycles, getting worse for a few weeks or months and then subsiding for a while. Although there is no cure, treatments are available to help manage symptoms.

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Kim Kardashian shares new videos of ‘crazy’ and ‘painful’ psoriasis attack: ‘I have to figure this out’

Kardashian’s news comes just a day after she gave her followers a glimpse into her worsening psoriasis right after it started.

“How crazy is my psoriasis now people? Everything is fine. I don’t know what’s going on. But I have to figure this out. This is crazy,” she said, showing off.

“I’m not going to lie, this hurts. 😖. I’m not sure what my triggers are. I haven’t changed my diet. I’ve tried everything! Psoriasis sucks,” she captioned the video.

In the following video, the SKIMS founder tells viewers, “Usually I only have this spot, but now I can say it goes down my leg and up my leg and all the way up my thigh. So I just know it’s time to figure it out.”

“Just wanted to share my journey with you,” she wrote.

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The The Kardashians the star recently admitted that she uses tanning beds as a type of treatment for her condition. Earlier this month, she showed off her office tanning salon in SKKN BY KIM’s TikTok video tour of her office, where she offered her take on the “natural” video trend.

As she lay in a tanning bed, she said: “I’m Kim Kardashian, of course, I have a tanning bed – and a red light bed – in my office.”

“Please, Kim Kardashian, don’t try to normalize tanning beds,” Allure magazine begged the reality star on X (formerly known as Twitter). “The statistics on tanning and cancer are frightening.”

Kardashian, then divided AllureThe user’s tweet and he responded defending her use of tanning beds. “I have psoriasis and it really helps when it’s bad. But I don’t use it too often,” she wrote.

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