Elderly itchy skin may be caused by dry skin, diabetes, uremia and other reasons, need to be based on the specific cause of the symptomatic treatment, usually based on drug treatment. Because of the individual physique and condition is different, there is no stop itching trick of saying. 1. Dry skin: due to sebaceous gland hypoplasia, sebum secretion reduction, dry skin and degenerative atrophy or excessive washing and scalding and other factors induced, can occur in the limbs and trunk. Usually use emollient creams such as urea ointment, vitamin E ointment and other drugs. 2. Diabetes: the elderly if you have diabetes, will be because the body’s glucose content is too high, will stimulate the skin nerve endings, and thus feel itchy, in this case you can use metformin, insulin and other drugs to control blood sugar. 3. Uremia: If the elderly have chronic kidney disease progressed to the stage of uremia, at this time the body’s blood creatinine level is high, due to the high level of toxins will stimulate the skin to produce itching sensation, you can take oral uremic granules, medicinal charcoal tablets, etc. to improve renal function, with the doctor for dialysis treatment or kidney transplantation. It is recommended to go to the regular hospital reasonable medication treatment, do not trust the so-called small trick, so as not to avoid aggravating the condition.