The feeling when are scratching like that is immense. Then I apply tea tree, aloe vera and loads of emollient, cover up and hobble back into the world of the living. I go and hide in toilet rooms or sneak upstairs to the bedroom, shut the door and SCRATCH.
#A DANCE OF FIRE AND ICE SCRATCH SKIN#
Not a good idea on already broken skin though… The bristles are soft enough that you can get a bit of a scratch in without damaging your skin. Use a body brush to slough off dead skin.It’s often too late when you wake in the night itchy because your skin is now dry and tight and sore Always apply plenty of emollient before going to bed, even if your skin feels OK.Stay cool, make sure you don’t get over heated, especially in bed as that way leads to scratching.Wearing cotton gloves – probably the least successful as I just pull them off in my sleep.Holding something hot on it, running very hot water on my hands or soaking in a really hot bath.Stroking the area or pressing hard on it with a finger tip or nail.Keeping my nails really, really short and filed smooth so that I can’t do so much damage.Wearing tights and/or other tight clothing so that I can’t get to the itch easily, the barrier makes me stop and think and try harder not to give in and scratch.Most of the time I have techiques to reduce the damage done including:
I don’t want to be scratching but I just can’t stop.Īnd holding my hands so I can’t is pretty much torture. I know I shouldn’t be doing it and my husband is forever digging me in the ribs or grabbing my hands and saying, “Stop scratching”. And it’s something I think I am addicted to doing. This is obviously something many people have been thinking and googling about.Īnd when you think about it, it is a form a self harm. Ever.Īnd quite astonishingly you only have to type in, ‘is scratching e…’ for google to self populate suggestions of what you might be looking for – the first to pop up being, amazingly, ‘is scratching eczema self harm?’. She urges others “to take part in spreading the word on Say No to ‘No Scratching’ and give each other permission and credit that we know what we are doing, that sometimes we really cannot help it, and that we are not here to judge anyone at all. I also try to apply moisturiser when it’s itchy but this is not always possible and in itself often turns into a scratch fest…Ī recent article I read on The National Eczema Society website, Lulu Haggans story about her life with eczema and trying to help her daughter through it too.
#A DANCE OF FIRE AND ICE SCRATCH FULL#
Going for bit of skin stroking instead, but every time you obey that instict to reach and touch the itch there is a huge change the stroke or press will turn into a full blown scratch. They are itching as well, they are itching now even as I write this blog but in the interests of skin preservation and fighting the urge. I don’t think many scabs have healed naturally on my body and fallen off when they were ready. I know this damages my skin but in my mind it’s almost as if my brain tells me, if I can clear the skin of all these scabs and hives and prurigo nodules the skin will be flat and clear below. I’m not even itchy but my finger nails go searching for any raised bump, lump or scab to tear or rip or dig at. I scratch when it itches, but sometimes I scratch out of pure habit. Sometimes I create deep gashes with a sharp bit of nail which look like a knife cut. But when I have scratched deep and long the damage is shocking.
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