What medicine should I use for itchy skin on my legs?

Itchy skin on the calves is difficult to deal with for many people, because no matter how they deal with it, they will still feel itchy. If you want to cure the disease, you must first find out the cause. Diseases that cause itchy calf skin include acute eczema, chronic eczema, subacute eczema, etc.

(1) Acute eczema: The patient feels severe itching, and papules, papulovesicles or small blisters are densely packed in patches, easily exudate, and have unclear edges. If secondary infection occurs, pustules, pus scabs, etc. may form. It often occurs on the head, face, behind the ears, distal extremities, scrotum, and anus.

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(2) Subacute eczema: After the inflammation of acute eczema is alleviated, severe itching still exists. The skin lesions are mainly small papules, scabs and scales, with only a small amount of papulovesicles and mild erosions.

(3) Chronic eczema: It often turns into chronic eczema due to repeated attacks of acute or subacute eczema. It may also start as chronic eczema. The symptoms include infiltration and thickening of the skin in the affected area and a rough surface. It is commonly seen in the hands, feet, calves, elbows, cubital fossa, vulva, and anus. The disease has a chronic course, is easily stimulated and has acute relapses, and is difficult to heal for a long time.

Lifestyle conditioning:

1. The best way to treat itchy calf skin is to apply ointment. The ointment can achieve a quick treatment effect, allowing you to get rid of the discomfort and sleep well, such as Pafuo Zhenfu Cream

1. Try to avoid contact with irritating items or activities in daily life.

2. Do not take a bath with overheated water or use alkaline soap.

3. Avoid irritating foods, and do an allergy test.

What ointment is good for itchy skin

1. Low pH cleaners and lubricants. Coolants and local anesthetics include menthol, camphor, carbolic acid, and EMLA, a mixture of the local anesthetics lidocaine and prilocaine. Topical antihistamines and topical corticosteroids. Immunosuppressants.

2. Antihistamines, calcium supplements, vitamin C, sodium thiosulfate, sedatives and hypnotics can be used according to the condition of the disease. Systemic pruritus can be treated with procaine hydrochloride intravenous blockade. Thalidomide (thalidomide) is used to treat inflammatory skin diseases. The opioid receptor antagonist naloxone is effective in treating cholestatic pruritus and uremic pruritus. Ondansetron, a 5-HT receptor antagonist

3. On the basis of cleaning the local skin, apply corticosteroid ointment externally for a short period of time, which has significant therapeutic effect. Commonly used creams include Elosone cream. If there is secondary infection, compound Conner cream can be used.

4. In the field of traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed that patients with damp-heat type generalized skin itching are newly diagnosed, mainly in young people, with yellow greasy or thin yellow greasy tongue coating, and slippery or slippery and rapid pulse. Treatment should be aimed at clearing away dampness and heat. Commonly used medicines include: Atractylodes, Phellodendron, Taraxacum, Capillaris, Gardenia, Sophora flavescens, Poria, Kochia scoparia, etc.