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Itching
Overview
When confronted with an itch, most of us tend to throw self-discipline out the door and scratch to our skin's content. While that may prove momentarily satisfying, scratching excessively can injure your skin. Itching, medically known as pruritus, is caused by stimuli bugging some part of our skin. An itch can range from a mild nuisance to a disrupting, damaging, and sleep-depriving fiasco. Itches happen for many reasons, including allergic reactions, sunburns, insect bites, poison ivy, reactions to chemicals, soaps, and detergents, medication, dry weather, skin infections and even aging.
Featured Remedy
Itching To get relief from itching, take an oatmeal bath or hold an oatmeal-soaked wet cloth on the itchy blisters for 15 minutes.
Ingredients
Itching
Oatmeal
Precautions
Itching
Avoid scratching or rubbing itchy areas as this worsens the problem. Keep finger nails short to prevent skin damage from scratching.
Wear loose, light and cool nightwear. Do not use thick, rough clothing like wool over itchy areas.
Take a bath with lukewarm water.
Apply a soothing lotion on to the skin after a bath.
Avoid exposure to heat and humidity. Keep your body and affected areas dry and clean at all times. Moisture can worsen itching.
Other Remedies
Itching
Take honey and cinnamon powder in equal proportions. Make a fine paste out of it and apply this on the affected area. This would stop itching.
In a bathtub filled with water, add a cup of white vinegar. Soak the body for 5 to 10 minutes.
Coat the affected area with a light paste of coconut oil and limejuice. This is a good remedy to cure itching.
Mix some baking soda with water. make a paste and apply this on the affected area.
Neem is very useful for the treatment of itching. Boil some neem leaves and pour the decoction on the affected parts of the body. Applying neem oil on the affected area is also helpful.
All advice is intended to be for informational purposes only, and not a substitute for professional or medical advice and/or diagnosis/treatment. DesiDieter does not provide medical advice and is not a substitute for professional medical advice from a qualified healthcare provider.
