Medicines or treatments for itchy skin in the elderly

Older people often have chronic diseases and are taking a variety of medications. Many oral and topical medications can cause itching.

Elderly people often suffer from chronic diseases and often take various medications. Many oral or topical medications can cause itching. In addition, the secretion of sebum under the skin of the elderly in winter is difficult and this makes the already dry skin of the elderly even drier.

On the other hand, the elderly have weak resistance, cannot stand the cold, when the weather turns cold they have to wear a lot of clothes, affecting the normal breathing process of the skin.

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According to traditional medicine, to prevent and treat itching in winter, the elderly should not bathe too much, 1-2 times a week is enough. Do not bathe in water that is too hot and do not use shower gels or soaps with high alkalinity; maintain appropriate humidity in the room... With symptoms of itching, flaking, itching more at night; especially on cold days... readers can use one of the following remedies:

Recipe 1: 9g dried ginger, 10 red dates, 6g cinnamon. Boil and drink one dose per day. Drink continuously for 7-10 days.

Recipe 2: 15g each of angelica, rehmannia glutinosa, and white peony root, 20g of red salvia miltiorrhiza, 10g each of saposhnikovia, perilla, and tribulus terrestris. Boil and drink one dose per day, twice a day.

Recipe 3: 50g of Da giao vine, 20g of Sophora flavescens and Sophora japonica, 30g of Kinh gioi, 5g of Hoa Tieu. Boil and drink one dose per day, boil twice.

Recipe 4: 6g cinnamon, 12g white peony, 10g angelica, 3 pieces of raw ginger, 10 red dates, 5g licorice root. One dose per day, decocted twice.

Recipe 5: 10g of angelica, 10g of cinnamon, 10g of white peony, 3g of asarum, 5g of licorice, 6g of atractylodes macrocephala, 3g of scutellaria root, 9g of raw ginger. One dose per day, decocted twice.

Medicinal food

Recipe 1: 30g eel meat, 15g red dates, enough rice, cook porridge to eat daily.

Recipe 2: 200g goat meat, 3g pepper, 15g raw ginger, 30g angelica. Stew until soft and eat hot.

Recipe 3: 15g hawthorn, 15g angelica, 10g jujube. Cooking.

External medicine

Lesson 1: Boil banana peel, soak a cotton towel in the juice and apply to the itchy area or use the inside of the banana peel to apply directly to the itchy area.

Lesson 2: 30g fresh peach leaves, boil to get the juice, at night before going to bed, use cotton to soak the juice and apply to the itchy area.

Recipe 3: 250g fresh ginger, 500ml white wine. Wash the ginger, slice it, soak it in wine for 3-5 days and it's ready to use. Use cotton soaked in this wine, apply it to the itchy area, 2-3 times a day.

According to Health & Life