Itchy Skin Rash Treatment

Skin is the largest organ of the human body, it is our cover that protects us from the outside world, gives us shelter from the cold, cools us down when it's hot. We feel through our skin, absorb the sun through it, eliminate toxins through sweat, we are water resistant because of it and we can feel the splendor of water because of it. Skin is a delicate organ. Just look at that picture! It's a machine! A powerful engine containing millions of nerve endings that react to heat, cold, touch, pressure and vibration. It reflects our emotions whether we blush or wear a tattoo. It represents us, protect us and nourish us.

You would think that such a delicate organ is well taken care of, you would think we know every little thing about it! And then one day you find out your skin itches, it's getting dry and the rash appears. You go to the doctors convinced that a cream or a pill will take care of this, but the doctors start to stutter, they are puzzled and don't know what is the cause -- hence don't know the cure. And so your nightmare begins. Year after year -- the same old symptoms, the same old treatments, the same old results. You think you're doomed and that your precious skin is just plainly broken. If the mighty medicine cannot fix it, what can?

Let's find that out.

Generally speaking, rashes can be put into three main categories:

1. Rashes caused by infectious agents (fungal, bacterial or viral)
2. Rashes caused by allergens (atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis)
3. Rashes caused by unknown agents

While the infectious rashes may occur at certain point in anyone's life and they are usually treated successfully, the other two types of itchy skin rashes reoccur, usually seasonally, and they are very rarely treated successfully. These two types of itchy skin rash are the reason you're reading this text right now.

Allergens or unknown causes, it's all the same really, because modern medicine virtually doesn't have an answer to neither of them. So, they treat the symptoms -- the itch. As you will see later in the text, this is just not enough. All they do is provide temporary relief, but sooner or later that itchy skin rash will reappear and you're on square one again. You need to do something to end that vicious circle!

Skin is dry and red and the itch is unbearable. You cannot refrain from scratching and that's when things start deteriorating -- redness turns from mild to severe, bumps appear and later scratching injuries and crusts. Itching gets replaced with burning sensation and pain, your skin looks like it's gone to hell and back again. You feel worried, ashamed and desperate. Hydrating creams help things up a little, but then after a few days when the scratching marks disappear, the itch kicks in again and you're at the beginning of another vicious circle.

But that's not all. Symptoms of any disease are not only physical in nature. There's that psychological and even social component as well. As I said before, skin represents us. It is the external layer of our body, it is our house facade, and when people see those scratching injuries and redness they tend to think we don't care enough for our skin, that we don't wash ourselves or some other nonsense. It is not an overstatement to say that we are judged by the state of our appearance, and the skin is the first thing everybody notices.

It is a sad fact that the conventional medicine does not know the cure for eczema rashes. There are however medications that are used today for easing the symptoms:

• Corticosteroids - used to reduce the inflammation of the skin (which is responsible for the itching sensation) and are very effective at it. The problem is they have many bad side effects if used frequently and that is why they are used only in severe cases of the disease and only occasionally.


• Antihistamines - used to minimize skin flare-ups. The effect of antihistamines usually wears off fairly quickly and the new types of the medicine are required to be used with every new episode.


• Moisturizing creams - used to reduce dryness of the skin.