Why are elbows itching? Have you ever asked this question? Most often, the elbows itch due to the fact that the skin on them becomes too dry, causing a peeling of the skin. The causes of such dry skin can be quite a lot, for example, temperature changes or just clothes, which include too many synthetic fibers. Simply put, the elbows itch due to dry skin, which appears due to a violation of the water-fat metabolism of the epidermis.
How to get rid of dry skin? Some tips.
- It is necessary to completely abandon the soap, replacing it with any foaming means.
- Squeeze a little foaming agent onto a soft brush, then add a few drops of glycerin and massage the rough elbows.
- Use scrubs with fruit acids at least twice a week. This is an excellent tool for removing dead skin.
- A scrub can also be made at home from sour cream with fine salt or coffee grounds.
- Apply daily nourishing body creams to trays that contain moisturizing ingredients. If there are cracks on the skin of the elbows, it is best to use a cream with alfalfa or chamomile extract. If tuberosities appeared on the skin of the elbows, then with lecithin or glycerin.
- If the elbows itch quite strongly, then in such periods they can be greased with interior fat or fish oil.
- Also, itching elbows can be washed with soapy water, then lubricated with cream and lemon juice. Lemon juice can help to heal small skin cracks, and to remove redness from the skin.
And some magic recipes.
- Compresses from sunflower or olive oil have an excellent therapeutic effect. Compresses must be applied to the elbows and wrapped tightly with a bandage to leave overnight.
- Wipe the itching elbows with table salt, then wash off the salt and grease the elbows with cream.
- There is another rather interesting method of treating this disease, which was proposed by scientists from Bulgaria. It is necessary to prepare one solution - take glycerin, rose water and only 10 drops of ammonia. This solution must be carefully rubbed into itching elbows for several days, which will give a wonderful effect - the skin will become beautiful and healthy, as before.
- It is necessary to take part of the onion, cut it very finely to the state of gruel and put it on the elbows, and then patch it with an ordinary plaster. In just half an hour, you can safely remove the bandage and clean the roughened skin with pumice. After that, in order to avoid irritation, you can lubricate the skin with olive or even butter.
- Dampen a cotton swab in rice broth, sauerkraut or grapefruit juice and wipe it with redness on the elbows, which after this procedure should take on a healthy pink hue.
- Also, in order to "whiten" the elbows, you can use the leaves of cabbage that are heavily mashed to juice. They need to wrap the damaged areas, thus making an impromptu compress.
- A recipe for an excellent bath, which can be used if the elbows itch. Add about 50 g of ordinary soda to a solution of soapy water and mix thoroughly. Next, you need to act like this - 10 minutes we hold the elbows in water, then clean them with a pumice, then again 10 minutes in the water and again pumice. This procedure should be repeated at least once a week.
Once you have begun to follow the above tips and follow all our recipes, you will definitely notice the first improvements after 10 days, but to ensure the best effect, you must adhere to the selected treatment plan for at least one month. In addition, after this month, you must periodically repeat this procedure, and then the skin on your hands will always be beautiful and healthy.