The skin of elderly people is aging, which is caused by the decrease of human physiological functions, resulting in thinning, lack of elasticity, wrinkles, pigmentation and other obvious symptoms. Occasionally, the skin warts that existed when the elderly were young can grow rapidly when they reach old age due to their low immunity, resulting in large skin warts, some of which can lead to skin cancer. The weather in winter is cold and dry, the elderly already have a lot of skin conditions, plus the weather is bad, it is very easy to dry and itchy symptoms, especially the itching of the lower limbs will be more obvious. Therefore, the skin of the elderly needs extra care in winter. In daily life we can do the following aspects: First: cleaning The older middle-aged and older people, for the use of shower gel products smooth feeling has not been very recognized, that this is not rinsed clean performance, and therefore very rejected. This age group, in its youth due to the emergence of no bathing products, so have developed the habit of using soap or soap bath, that the dry feeling after washing is a clean performance, resulting in a high degree of identification with soap products. Many older people also pay more attention to the importance of disinfection, and will also use sulfur soap, feeling that sulfur is a good thing, you can achieve the role of disinfection of the skin through the ingredients of sulfur. In fact, it is not, we should know that soap, soap alkaline ingredients relatively to more, especially sulfur soap, these products for the elderly, the stimulus component will be greater, so it is recommended that if for people who are already used to using soap, you can switch to neutral facial soap, rub into the foam and then apply, and finally rinse clean. The water temperature, the elderly due to other physical problems, will lead to a low sense of temperature difference, always feel chilly, which is the traditional Chinese medicine called “body cold”. Therefore, bathing, washing face, especially love to use high temperature water, need to wash through the high temperature water, a so-called “hot bath”. However, the skin of the elderly is relatively dry, sweat and sebaceous secretion began to reduce, so we need to stop this high-temperature bathing behavior, to avoid high-temperature water to stimulate the epidermis, but also to avoid rinsing high-temperature bath to blood pressure, heart overload. In terms of temperature, no matter what the season, the water temperature should not exceed 40 degrees. For face washing, it is recommended that older people use low to medium water to clean their faces all year round, where low to medium generally means about 20 degrees. When cleaning other parts of the body, you do not need to take a scrubbing towel and rub the whole body hard once to call clean. Now our habits lead to “we will not be dirty to where”, especially the middle-aged and elderly people who are much less active than young people, more than imagined so dirty, so the number of baths in winter once or twice a week is best, without “violence” to treat themselves Already started to weak skin, focus on cleaning the armpits, anus, perineum and other parts can be. Second: skin care products We often see many elderly people in the clinic will brag to the doctor, “I never use any cosmetics in my life, just take warm water to clean it, you see how good my skin is, just itchy legs, I do not know why?” In fact, there are many reasons for the itchy skin of middle-aged and elderly people, some are caused by vitamin deficiency, some are caused by viral infections, and some are caused by poor blood circulation. The cause of this itch still depends on the location. The itchy limbs, back and abdomen alone are also related to dry skin, and it is best to use some skin care products at this time. Especially in winter, the weather is cold, sebum metabolism becomes slower, such as we do not artificially help to protect the skin, but to wait for the skin to relieve itself, then the time will be relatively long. Therefore, in the winter season, middle-aged and elderly people can apply some skin care products after taking a bath. The skin care products here are very different from the bottles and jars of young people, we mainly apply Vaseline ingredients, aloe vera ingredients can be, what other moisturizing, whitening effect, completely can not be considered. The simpler the ingredients the better for us middle aged people. And some parts of the itch need our special attention, such as the vulva itch in elderly women can not be ignored. There is no saying that itching will definitely occur when you are older. In my clinical clinic, studies on HPV, especially the high-risk type, show that HPV infection at a young age can aggravate the symptoms in old age when the autoimmune system is low, leading to some external manifestations, and vulvar itching is one of them. This is very different from the simple aging itchy skin that I described above and requires a detailed diagnosis at a hospital to prevent more serious disease.