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Why Dry Skin Make You Itch? Cause, Symptoms, Treatments

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why dry skin make you itch

Dry skin

(Also called: Xeroderma)

Hate it when itch? you are not new who hate when itch or rash occur on your body. Itching can be caused by many things but having dry skin is what makes it worse for you. Dry skin is deficient in oil and lipids when compared to regular skin.

Why dry skin make you itch?

Dry skin, eczema, and hives are the reason you are feeling itching all over your body. Dry skin lacks oil and lipids, so when you get exposed to conditions like exposing skin to the atmosphere or environmental conditions that may irritate the skin, remain in contact to direct sunlight can be a problem, using strong laundry soaps, shampoos, or body lotion can make your skin behave uncommonly.

So first you have to know how your skin behaves in different environmental conditions. When exposure to artificial products or what products do triggers your skin itching. Keep them in mind and try to make less contacting your skin with them is the best thing you can do.

Causes

It can be caused by many factors related to your daily life activities, some environmental conditions, disease conditions are also reasons for this. They are discussed below:

Environment condition

When you are exposed to the atmospheric condition where the humidity levels and temperature are considerably low, likewise in winter seasons our skin tends to be dry more. When the air in the atmosphere is cold and dry, the water that our skin holds gets evaporated more easily. This makes your skin feel dry and tightness is observed. But seasonal changes don’t have more impact if you live in hot and humid areas like desert areas.

The world’s largest hot desert is the Sahara desert. In the category of hot desert, Sahara desert holds the title for biggest. Other cold deserts bigger than the Sahara are Antarctica and Arctic, which are cold deserts.

Taking hot showers

Showering or having a bath with hot water can make your skin dry, hot showers impact the same as sunburn and inflaming of skin. The keratin cells present in the outermost layer of skin get damaged by hot showering. They make your skin more itch and red. The skin’s natural balance of moisture is disrupted, natural oil, proteins, fat which makes your skin healthy got stolen from the skin. It’s better to wet your skin with lukewarm or cold water.

Strong soap and detergents

Using strong soap for bathing and detergents for washing clothes have effects in making your skin dry. So it becomes important to use the soaps which are likely to benefit your skin type. If your skin is dry soaps like dove beauty bar, goat milk soap, Cetaphil deep cleansing bar, etc. can be used.

Stress

Probably you are not aware that stress is also a cause of dry skin. Because of stress, your body’s cortisol level increases up (leading to more oily skin), at weekends your skin becomes dry when you get too much exposure to stress at work. Practicing meditation exercises are best to deal with mental stress.

Drug abuse

Addiction to smoking, intake of alcohol, injecting chemicals often called drugs are also considered as the factors which lead to dry skin or other skin problems. Eg- Cigarette contains carbon monoxide, which depletes oxygen from the skin, Nicotine which slows down the blood flow, due to which essential nutrients doesn’t reach our skin, it becomes dry and lost its natural color. Other drugs or addictive substances also damage skin’s health all have their specific ways according to drug constituent profile by which it variates health condition.

Medicine reactions

All of us from time to time suffer from different health conditions for treatment for which we take medicines, unaware of fact that medicines (not all) make our skin dry. So if you are already having a dry skin type it’s become important to take into account the medicine you are taking doesn’t have any skin-related problems.

Common medicines that cause dry skin:

Less water intake

Less water intake is a common aspect that people don’t see or ignore as not important. But if your water intake is less it will make your skin dry, water is the main factor in skin’s elasticity, It will be lost or tighten if the water intake is not enough. water helps in excreting or removal of many toxic or unwanted substances which will ultimately help in raising skin’s health.

8 glasses of water a day is good for the body and skins out of toxins.

Disease condition

When you don’t care when the skin starts becoming dry over time it may develop into disease condition Atopic dermatitis (eczema). Causing redness, cracking, and inflammation.

Are also the reason for dry skin, in diabetes, you can follow a healthy breakfast for diabetics, these foods are good for the morning time.

Symptoms of dry skin

Doesn’t it better to know whether you having dry skin or not?

You probably want to know, Some symptoms people generally observe because of dry skin, are discussed below:

These are symptoms a person usually has when they suffer from dry skin.

It’s good to know the symptoms, to have better treatment for your skin, and to minimize these symptoms you will take appropriate steps keeping your skin type in mind.

Treatment

The two approaches that you can take by mildness to severity graph of your dry skin to cure the condition are:

Self-treatment

Some modifications in your lifestyle to get rid of dry skin are listed below:

Also read- Guide to care for your skin during wax therapy.

Medical care

If the condition persists after self-approach to dry skin, now it’s time to move to medical care. Going to a dermatologist is best and accordingly taking the medicines prescribed by him will surely help to get rid of skin problems.

Questions you want to ask the doctor regarding your skin problem

A doctor may ask few questions

According to answers to these questions, the doctor will find what type of skin problem you are suffering from and what’s the best treatment for it.

Medications

List of medications recommended:

 

 

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