Why do my calf skin itch in summer? You can't stop scratching. It's better when the weather is cool.

Skin itching is a common problem. Itching may be local (confined to a certain area of the body) or systemic (itching occurs all over the body or in several different areas). Itching all over the body is difficult to treat. Itching with or without skin damage, such as swelling or blisters. The cause of pruritus with lesions must be found out, and special treatment (such as eczema and scabies) may be needed. Itching is accompanied by many diseases.

○ The most common causes of itching are psychological factors such as stress and anxiety. Stress may also aggravate itching for other reasons.

○ Dry skin is also a common cause of itching.

Metabolic and endocrine diseases (such as liver or kidney diseases, hyperthyroidism) and cancer (such as lymphoma).

drug reaction

○ Skin parasites.

○ Blood diseases (such as polycythemia vera)

○ Many pruritus have no serious underlying diseases.

Itching will promote scratching, which may lead to a bad itching-scratching cycle. Scratching lasts for months or years, and the scratching part will thicken or have pigment residue.

Stopping scratching is the best way to cure irritated skin.

Treatment of local itching [external use]

Cold compress: Because cold and itching are transmitted through the same nerve, cold compress can block the transmission line and play an antipruritic role. Cold compress method:

Cold water: rinse the affected area with tap water or apply it to the skin with a clean cold towel.

Cold shower

ice strip

Hot water feels good for a while, but it often itches more afterwards. So it is not recommended to use hot water.

The components of the antipruritic cream and lotion include:

camphor

menthol

phenol

Pramosin

dimedrol

Benzocaine

If necessary, you can use it every few minutes. These preparations help to relieve the numbness of nerve endings and prevent crazy scratching that makes the skin rough, painful and even itchy.

The creams and lotions containing hydrocortisone are only helpful for itching caused by eczema and seborrheic skin.

Oral pruritus treatment

Traditionally, antihistamines have been used. Commonly used are:

Diphenhydramine (25 mg, three times a day)

Chlorpheniramine (4 mg, once or three times a day)

If it is itching caused by an underlying disease, the underlying disease must be treated.

A small recipe for self-treatment

Dry skin and itchy skin in winter.

1. Immerse the skin in warm water.

2. Lubricate the skin to avoid evaporation of skin moisture.

3. Rub the lotion when there is moisture on the skin surface.

4. The best emulsion is vaseline

Use ultra-lipid soap

6. Don't use soap often

Step 7 Use a wet machine

to reduce body temperature

Itching, everyone has experienced it. It is a special feeling on the skin and the most common symptom in skin diseases.

Light itching makes people uncomfortable, and heavy itching makes people irritable. The feeling of itching can't be said. The so-called "can only be understood, but can't be expressed."

Zheng, a Chinese medicine practitioner of Maguang Pharmaceutical Group, said that many people don't know that some common foods actually have antipruritic effects, such as mung beans, pears, red dates and soybeans.

Chinese medicine attaches great importance to the holistic view of dermatosis, that is, "if the disease is inside, it must be outside." Mung beans are specially used to treat heat itching. Because heat itching is caused by fever in the body, and mung beans have antipyretic effect, which is suitable for treating heat itching.

He pointed out that as long as you add water to mung beans until they are slightly rotten, you can drink mung bean water.

In addition, some cool vegetables, such as mint, are very effective for skin itching caused by wind and heat. Mint can be used for external use or soaked in water.

Washing with some common herbs such as cloves, mugwort leaves, Sophora flavescens and Lysimachia christinae can achieve the effect of relieving itching.

Dr. Zheng said: "It is worth noting that Chinese medicine not only treats internal and external symptoms, but also pays great attention to personal care of patients."

He also pointed out that many patients with itching have two illusions, that is, they like to wash with hot water and like to scratch with their hands.

"Hot water will irritate the skin, and the hotter it is, the more itchy it will be. Scratching will damage the skin, and scratching will aggravate itching and bleeding.

"Patients should try to restrain themselves when they itch, or tap the itchy part with their hands to divert their attention."

It is also effective to calm down and keep an optimistic and happy mood to relieve itching. Emotional instability, nervousness or anxiety are the basic causes of itching.

The occurrence of itching may be caused by external factors, so personal hygiene can not be ignored.

Chinese medicine also emphasizes timely sleep; However, many itching symptoms do not need to be nursed back to health.

Skin itching is mostly caused by qi-blood imbalance.

The causes of skin itching are external and internal, mostly caused by qi-blood imbalance. Food can stop.

Common itching includes eating fish, shrimp, seafood, rooster, carp, beef, etc., all of which have the function of "moving the wind". The food containing protein may also make the rash break out or aggravate the original rash, resulting in erythema and maculopapular rash.

There is also an itch caused by alcohol, which is called "alcohol itch". This may be itchy skin immediately after drinking or the next day. Flushing or small red papules may appear when the wine itches.

Patients should appropriately limit the consumption of seafood, bacon, geese, bamboo shoots, peanuts, fermented bean curd and other foods.

Itching patients should try to eat more vegetables and bean products, and ask for low-salt, high-vitamin, light and fresh food.