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Senile skin pruritus is a skin disease that is closely related to seasons, weather, hot and cold changes, and changes in body metabolism. It is common in middle-aged and elderly people, and it is easy to develop in winter.

Senile pruritus

Senile skin pruritus is a skin disease that is closely related to seasons, weather, hot and cold changes, and changes in the body's metabolism. It is common in middle-aged and elderly people and is easy to develop in winter.

Western Medicine Name

Senile pruritus

Disease site

skin

Main cause

Love to use hot water to bathe too often

Multiple groups

Seniors

In the winter, when many elderly people undress and go to bed at night, the skin on their bodies will itch, and the more itching and itching, the more itching and scratching, until it is scratched or aching, and then it will stop itching and fall asleep. It is senile skin pruritus, which is a skin disease that is closely related to seasonal, weather, hot and cold changes, and changes in body metabolism.

The calf itches and gradually spreads to the thigh and even the whole body. Whenever I take off my underwear before going to bed, my warm body is stimulated by the cooler air in the room, which immediately induces itchy skin. Modern medicine believes that due to the cold and dry winter climate, human skin also becomes dry and rough, and even the epidermis falls off, making intradermal nerve endings more susceptible to irritation and itching. Due to older skin

I like to take a bath with very hot water. The frequency is too frequent. Using alkaline soap or medicated soap will make the dull skin lose the nourishment of sebum.

It is also related to many systemic diseases, such as endocrine changes, indigestion and constipation, allergic factors, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, liver and gallbladder diseases, and some tumors.

The body's metabolic disorders and endocrine abnormalities are one of the important causes of skin itching.

The purpose of topical drug treatment is to relieve or reduce itching. Commonly used topical drugs often contain antipruritic drugs such as carbonic acid, menthol, musk, phenol, coal tar solution, etc. According to the condition, a commonly used calamine lotion such as lotion cream is formulated Lotion or phenol calamine lotion, or a corticosteroid ointment or cream. Patients with pruritus or anus pruritus should avoid using irritating drugs.

(1) Avoid scratching, rubbing and washing with hot water to stop itching; avoid tobacco, alcoholic tea, and spicy food; if itching of the skin is a symptom of some diseases, treat the primary disease as the Lord.

(2) Oral antihistamines, calcium, vitamin A, vitamin C, and multivitamin B; sex hormone treatment, male patients with testosterone propionate 25 mg, intramuscular injection, twice a week, or taking methyl testosterone 5 mg, 2 times a day. Female patients can take 0.5 mg of diethylstilbestrol, twice daily, or 10 mg of progesterone, intramuscularly, once daily.

(3) Chinese medicine treatment. Chinese medicine believes that the disease is blood deficiency and wind dryness, treatment should be nourishing blood and moisturizing, Shufeng and itching. The medicinal angelica, red scallion, chuanxiong, and windproof are each 10 grams, and the raw land, mature land, blood vine, Shou vine, tribulus terrestris, and ground skin are 15 grams each. Shuijianbi 2 times a day. Addition and subtraction: stubborn itchy skin with mossy skin plus whole worms, snake meat, fried soap thorn; secondary skin infections or eczema-like changes, white tongue and greasy skin with gentian, scutellaria, diarrhea, matrine, white Moss skin; upset and insomnia, red tongue plus lotus seed heart, fried mandarin duck, mother of pearl.

(4) Topical topical corticosteroid ointment or cream and antipruritic and emollient lotions.