Traditional Chinese medicine therapy can relieve dry and pruritic skin in winter

The 2018-02-13 People's Daily online

Winter good hair skin itching, a systemic and most ticklish as part of the trunk, when SAO is urticant acuteness, unbearable, body must be powerful scratching, some even with the help of instrument scratching, until the skin blood flow, feeling the pain. Due to the severe itching, it can affect the sleep, can be dizziness upset, mental depression and loss of appetite and other neurasthenic symptoms.

Use corticosteroids in the short term and don't worry about skin atrophy.

For patients with severe itching, sedation and itching are the most important tasks.

Antipruritic and antipruritic drugs, usually choose the calamine lotion, camphor cream or corticosteroid cream, cream, such as anodizing, dermatitis, etc. In general, two or three months of daily use or interstitial corticosteroid preparation for a month should not worry too much about the atrophy of the skin caused by hormones. When the itching is more severe, it can be used for internal medicine or injection of antihistamine, sedative and antipruritic drugs, calcium gluconate, etc. You can also try to gently pat the skin on the itching spot to avoid excessive scratching and bleeding, leading to secondary infection.

Internal and external use, acupuncture point injection, traditional Chinese medicine antipruritic method.

For patients with intractable itching, try traditional Chinese medicine.

The traditional Chinese medicine is based on the principle of nourishing blood and removing the wind and drying and relieving itching. In this way, it can be taken as the Chinese medicine, and it can also be used as the traditional medicine for relieving itching pills and drying and relieving itching capsules. External use, there are three yellow lotion, compound yellow cypress liquid, yellow press cream, cold oil emulsion and so on, 2-3 times daily; Can also be Chinese medicine herba schizonepetae, rhizoma polygonati, fructus cnidii and rhizoma chuanxiong, radix paeoniae rubra, sophora, glabrous greenbrier rhizome, belvedere fruit every 20 to 30 grams, 2000 ml water and cooked, lukewarm washing, especially suitable for blood deficiency caused by wind dry itchy skin.

Acupoint injection for the treatment of skin itching also have very good effect, it is suitable for senile pruritus disease, the body resistance is poor, female menopause and imbalance in the immune function disorder, often in astragalus membranaceus and salvia miltiorrhiza injection 2-4 ml, li 11, foot three mile point injection on both sides respectively, 2 times a week, four to eight weeks in a row, yiqi huoxue, functions of relieving itching; It can also strengthen the body and improve the body's ability to resist disease.

Vitamin A ointment, it is best to use at night.

One of the main causes of skin itching in winter is dry skin, which can be treated with vitamin A for dry, itchy skin. It is important to note that vitamin A ointment is best applied at night, as it is easy to induce photosensitive dermatitis in some patients with sunlight.

Rich moisturizing factor, allantoin, moreover, the composition such as emulsion is a good choice, it can form the skin barrier protection, also can use alternating with external use hormone preparations, both take hormone quick anti-itching effect, but also its moisturizing, reduce the skin dry desquamation. In daily life also should avoid hot water to wash, avoid food and spicy stimulate food, appropriate wear cotton loose underwear.