Tag: Itch
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Topical Tip #2: Soap Substitutes
With atopic eczema, washing the skin with soap and water can leave it dry and itchy Soap and water are unfriendly for atopic skin. Conventional washing removes natural oil from the skin, leaving it relatively porous, or “leaky”. The skin can then rapidly dry out, as water is more able to escape out through the surface…
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Habit Reversal Tip #4: Habitual Scratching
It is very characteristic with chronic atopic eczema to find only a part of scratching is due to itch: habitual scratching also needs treating In English the words “itch” and “scratch” are often used inter-changeably – to understand habit reversal as part of the treatment of chronic eczema it is useful to distinguish these two…
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What tips do you have for atopic eczema in the cold weather?
Like an old piano can go out of tune in the cold weather, so our skin can need extra attention too. In cold weather the air around us, outside and indoors, holds less moisture: the relative humidity goes down. Then water contained within a semi-permeable membrane like skin will tend to escape fast into the…