What should I do if my child’s skin is always itchy?

For children, their skin is very tender and white, and it feels very good to touch. However, some parents have found that their children always scratch their skin with their hands, resulting in red streaks on their skin, which looks very painful. This situation often means that the baby's skin has itchy symptoms. So, what should we do if our children's skin is always itchy?

When this happens, if there is no obvious rash on the skin, Western medicine generally considers it to be pruritus, while Chinese medicine believes that it is a condition of heavy moisture in the body, which manifests as itchy skin, rash, and especially eczema. Children should be guided to exercise more, enhance their body's resistance, and eliminate moisture from the body. In terms of diet, they can consider dehumidifying foods such as red bean and barley soup. In severe cases, appropriate oral medications can be used.

Can babies scratch their itchy skin?

If you find that your baby has no physical abnormalities but keeps crying and moving around all day, then maybe you should pay attention to the problem of itchy skin in your baby. It is very dangerous for babies to scratch their itchy skin in winter. Baby skin has a natural disease-proof barrier. If babies scratch randomly, it is easy to break the surface skin and cause infection. This causes the itching without rash to bleed after scratching, and then secondary infection causes redness and oozing of fluid, and a rash to appear.

In addition, scratching itself will stimulate skin proliferation and promote the release of some inflammatory substances. After the release, it will take effect locally, causing inflammation and thickening of the baby's skin. Therefore, after scratching, the baby's skin will often become thickened, rough, and more itchy.

If your baby has itching, treatment should be based on the cause. There are many reasons for baby's itchy skin in winter, such as taking a bath too often, the water temperature is too high, and the bathing time is too long may cause baby's skin itching. Experts remind that if a child's skin itching is difficult to heal, he should go to the hospital as soon as possible for a clear diagnosis.