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Dr. Amee Daxini | Phone 📞 099013 54408 (Online & in-person appointment can be booked online or by call) Consultant Dermatologist & Cosmetologist | Think Skin Clinic, Sarjapur Road, Bangalore, India
So winter itch as the name says you have itching during winter. In medical terminology we call it Pruritus Hiemalis. Essentially this happens because the cold air generally has less moisture in it, less humidity in it so it tends to suck the humidity from the surface of our skin. This cold dry air therefore makes our skin drier. It also happens in summer months when there is excessive AC or you’re sitting in an AC room for a very long time the humidity from your skin is taken away by the dry air leaving it extremely irritable and itchy. So what are the symptoms of the winter itch? First is you notice dryness and scaling of the skin and that dry skin becomes extremely itchy especially at night or especially when you’re changing your clothes and because of constant itching then you start noticing scratch marks and sometimes even small blood points. This is the time you know that you need to do something about it and what do we do? Very simple things that you need to remember. First important thing is stop taking those hot showers. You know in winter it feels so relaxing and nice to be in a bathroom where there is a lot of steam and the water is nice and hot but hot water subsequently causes extra evaporation of the moisture which is there on the surface of our skin. Therefore it becomes dryer. The other thing is after the shower just pat dry. Let the water be on the surface of the skin and immediately apply your moisturizer on a wet moist damp skin. What will that do? That will lock the moisture in and prevent evaporation. So all day long you will have better softer skin. I also recommend at times to use a double moisturizer after a shower. First you can use a simple moisturizer containing aloe vera gel or glycerin and top it up with a natural oil. So you get double protection. Water moisturizer as well as an oil hydrant. Natural oils that you can use are the simplest is the coconut oil of course but you can use oils containing vitamin E all these give you an added factor of even anti-oxidation which reduces pigmentation too. The other thing you need to remember is clothes. Woolen clothes and clothes which are synthetic like you know nylon or rayon clothes can irritate the dry skin further. So if you are wearing wools remember to first wear a cotton inner and then wear your woolen sweaters. That will prevent the wool directly touching the skin and irritating it. Sometimes we also notice excessive rashes sensitivity post severe winter itch. Before it reaches that level do consult your doctor get your moisturizers right and use them regularly twice a day.
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