Posts Tagged ‘itch’
June 9th, 2021 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
What happens when you drop some oil on water? The molecules in the oil form a very thin layer at the top and that’s it. They are not going anywhere. What is my answer to itchy, sensitive skin? I prepare a bath with warm (but not hot) water, drop some Nourishing skin serum with hemp extract in it, and then I go in. The thin layer of nourishing lipids that my skin needs so badly transfers instantly to every square inch of my body, much more efficiently than if I try to apply it patiently (I have no patience). The myriad itches go away and my skin looks great. A…
December 6th, 2020 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
It’s winter and the skin is dry and itchy. It’s summer and a mosquito bites your ankle and it’s itchy. It’s allergy season and the skin itches. Your new medications make your skin itchy. It’s any time and your scalp itches. You scratch the itch, the broken cells have released histamine and amplified the itch. Now the skin is scratched, red and swollen, and even broken. And, worse, it still itches. What to do? Scratch again. Understanding itch It seems that the itch (a.k.a. pruritus) mechanism evolved so that animals could rid of disease-causing insects and irritating or poisonous plant matter. In our domesticated life, chronic itch caused by dry…