I'm about ready to gnaw my own arm off

[AngieChick]

If you use a stick it doesn't count as scratching. As long as your fingernails aren't touching your skin

Maybe try a nice wet warm washcloth for immediate help. Calendula is the best relief that I've found, as well. I hate being itchy.

 

[debilorrah]

Excema is different that an "itch" it is as annoying as poision ivy, but deeper. It really is awful to have.

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

I saw that someone mentioned Aquaphor. Another good lotion to try is Eucerin. My daughter had eczema when she was younger. The lotions don't cure the eczema, but they do help with the itching.

There are also a variety of prescription cremes the doctor can prescribe that will take care of it a lot faster. If you are already using one and it's not working, see if he will let you try a different one.

 

[AngieChick]

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I have had bouts with it here and there, it is miserable. It always happens to me in between my fingers. Maddening. Luckily, I have never had it last long. It also seems to coincide with allergy season, so I'm sniffly, sneezy and itchy. I'm like my own little group of "Snow White" characters.

I admit that I use really hot washcloths, so hot that you can barely touch it because the burning is better than the itching.

DH suffers from psoariasis, poor guy, it never fully goes away.

 

[debilorrah]

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I have had bouts with it here and there, it is miserable. It always happens to me in between my fingers. Maddening. Luckily, I have never had it last long. It also seems to coincide with allergy season, so I'm sniffly, sneezy and itchy. I'm like my own little group of "Snow White" characters.

I admit that I use really hot washcloths, so hot that you can barely touch it because the burning is better than the itching.

DH suffers from psoariasis, poor guy, it never fully goes away.

That extremem heat put on the brakout helps too. Hurts like hell but stops the itching!!!

 

[chickiebaby]

I have family members with pretty darned bad eczema, and though I echo Miss Prissy on jewelweed. for PI, my hussband does not want anything like that on eczema. As evidence of the miracles of evolution, jewelweed grows mostly right alongside poison ivy, for which it is a dandy remedy.
For eczema, pine tar works great, too, esp if mixed with fish oil, as an old-skool combo remedy. You can fix it yourself OR you can order it - tho its excessively pricey - from The Vermont Country Store, online or catalog. Pine tar by itself should be used in limited amounts of course.

I hate itching more than anything. Thinking of you, and itching like heck just thinking about your itch!