WOW I'm sooo itchy...need help with dry skin

My skin is doing the freak out thing... its usually ok when I'm not pregnant but I guess my hormones have gone so wacky I'm just covered in dry skin. I just started noticing at night when I change my clothing (on the inside) is covered in dry skin. Yea, I know... gross. My skin is just everywhere and itchy as hell. My lotion (lubiderm) is obviously not doing a good enough job... anyone with sensitive skin have any suggestions of a good lotion that will help me keep my skin hydrated? I can't stop scratching at myself. I think I may put mittens on, lol.

 

Eucerin or Cetaphile And use Cetaphile soap. The stuff in the tub is really greasy, but helpful. If you don't like the grease, use the cream in the bottle. And, some people won't like this, don't bathe or shower every day. Unless you are a really funky person, it really dries you out. Put the creame or lotion on while you are still a little damp.

 

I would agree with the above. I'm a lifelong eczema sufferer and all too often I have the dry skin as you say on the inside of my clothing and bedding. Nasty! At times I have to use a vaccuum cleaner on the bedding to get rid of it, or else I'd be changing the bedding every day!

What has been said about not too frequent washing makes sense. What I tend to do is soak in a bath say once a week using Oilatum bath oil, or E45 bath oil and wash my skin with emulsifying cream. All of these can be purchased without prescription and are very effective. It's also good to sort of stand around a bit before towelling down, and pat rather than rub with the towel, or the skin might become irritated. Let the oil soak in before drying your skin, and definitely allow say ten minutes before putting on any clothing. Don't use highly perfumed moisturisers, use the Simple range, the E45 range or even just good old Vaseline, but again with the Vas, you need to allow a time before putting on clothing, or the grease will soak into the clothing and not your skin.

Other than that I tend to just wash my armpits, under my breasts and my private parts on a daily basis, that way I don't expose my skin to too much drying out from washing.

Taking anti-histamine tablets helps with the itching too, although I try not to become too reliant on these. Breaking the scratching cycle is hard to do, and there are times that you will slip back into it. Seek medical help when it all becomes too much and try to cut down on stressful activities (not easy I know) because a lot of these skin complaints can be stress-related.

Hope this helps anyway!

 

i use unsented oil. i forget all that's in it, but it's got some olive, sunflower and almond oil. i got it at the hfs it's excellant, i even use it on my face.

 

If your skin is super dry try using a vitamin e body wash in the shower and when you step out use baby oil all over. Or you could use a creamy lotion. If all else fails use vaseline at night. good luck

 

Also, be sure to look at the ingredients too. Stay away from alcohol, "fragrance", "laureth" of any kind and generally anything that you cannot pronounce. These things may be cheaper, but you really do get what you pay for in skin care products. I only put natural things on my body.

The stuff I'm using now is called "almond glow" It contains: peanut oil, olive oil, lanolin oil and vitamin E. That's it. It's super fantastic and I put some aside in another bottle and add essential oils to it for an aromatherapy effect

 

i prefer to just grab a bottle of olive oil and a cheap scrubber sponge. after i use a little soap to wash the stinky bits, i rub the olive oil on the rest of my body, scrub with the sponge, rinse of the excess and pat dry. also, make sure your bathing water isn't too hot. that's really bad for your skin. cheap fix for people who just have seasonal dry skin instead of a genuine skin condition. also, unless your job is to get into a pig sty and roll with them, you probably don't need to soap up or clean your entire body, just the parts that excrete the most oderiforous of the body oils and such. a lotta people over cleanse.

 

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a humidifier wouldn't hurt, either.

 

Gold Bond Menthol lotion.It's the only thing that works for mr when allergies make my skin itch like crazy, so bad that a prescription for Attarax (hydroxzine) won't work. It has a strong medicine smell though

 

I started taking fish oil capsules recently, and they've really helped my dry skin. Also, pacific sea kelp capsules are great for that too. My face ussually gets really really dry and flaky, and the fish oil has pretty much cured that.

good luck mama!

 

Get an aloe vera plant and use the oils from the leaves. Works so well, so does hemp oil.