Do you struggle with your hands are they dry or flaky irritated or itchy I have some tips to help you out.
Hand Dermatitis
My skin is dry my hands are really dry but when I look at it it’s not just dryness it’s
low-grade inflammation that manifests as flaking itchy skin and so people perceive oh it’s just that my hands are dry but oftentimes there might be something else going on there as well we have a term in dermatology called hand dermatitis.
catch-all term to Encompass any type of rash on the hands that doesn’t have a clear Source or cause it means inflammation of the skin on the hands
Hand Dermatitis Causes
Dermatitis is irritation and irritation can sometimes be a little bit sneaky so repeated hand washing sure can irritate the hand’s exposure to cold dry
- weather or even really hot weather can irritate the hands using things like
hand sanitizer repeatedly or touching
- some type of chemical that you might not even be aware of at work can do this
another really common contributor to hand dermatitis is repeated trauma
- you play a sport like you’re gripping a baseball bat or a lacrosse stick over and over again you can have some micro-trauma under hands
- if you do gardening or you do other types of manual labor that’s another way that you can sort of incur small amounts of trauma on your hands
Gloves
it is super stubborn and super easily triggered essentially and so the goal
- when it comes to improving your hands really should be Improvement not complete clearance because oftentimes people who are prone to hand dermatitis will always have a little bit of that dermatitis or low-grade inflammation running in the background the goal is to improve your hands
- you’re going to invest in a lot of gloves and it’s worth the investment it’s not practical to tell someone to avoid touching everything in their life you need to use
your hands to do most daily functions but you can use gloves to protect your hands from potential irritants you need to use them
Hand Washing Tips
Use Of Lukewarm Water
you want to use lukewarm water and the most mild gentle soap possible I actually really like using just a gentle facial cleanser
like a CeraVe gentle wash or a Cetaphil gentle wash and that’s just a nice way to not overly strip your hands
Use Good Quality Soap
you do not need super strong antibacterial soap and definitely do not be washing your hands with dish soap
I see that so many times in like why also if you’re someone who wears a lot out of rings you want to make sure that you remove your rings before you
wash your hands sometimes little irritants soap
Hand Creams
Favorite hand lotion I talk about this all the time is gloves in a bottle this is the best especially for hand lotion that you have to apply during the day because it’s non-greasy
- It essentially forms this very thin film barrier over your hands so one it doesn’t transfer to other things
- The heaviest hand cream that I use is the Neutrogena Norwegian hand cream this one much more feels like an ointment it’s a lot greasier it’s a little bit stickier so that to me is like a nighttime only hand cream
Superglue
if you have little fissures which essentially are tiny little Cuts in your fingers or on
your hands they can be incredibly incredibly painful and one thing you can do to help with the pain is to put a teeny bit of super glue right in that cut you’re not going to get systemic
absorption of the glue it’s not going to cause a big health problem and as your
skin is supported and as it heals it’ll sort of just force that glue up and out
and it will peel right off of your skin I have literally had hand dermatitis patients come into
Benefits of super glue
- it can be incredibly helpful people who also get big cracks in their heels you can also use super glue in this case again run it by your dermatologist make sure they’re okay
- with it but when done correctly and precisely it can help so much with this discomfort of fissures
Medications
I talked about is using topical steroids which are very potent anti-inflammatory medications to help calm down the skin. when the skin on the hands gets irritated it then becomes hypersensitive to everything in your environment and even things that
normally weren’t bothersome and so steroids sometimes can be a great temporary solution to help reset the skin on your hands
so that it can tolerate the stuff that it used to be able to tolerate steroids get a really bad rap but when used correctly under appropriate guidance they are
life-changing for people
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