The skin is more likely to become dry and itchy in autumn. Autumn is a very important season for skin care, and moisturizing is one of the most important, because many allergic skin diseases are caused by dry skin. To prevent dry and itchy skin in autumn, you should drink more water, pomegranate juice, and eat more carrots, black sesame seeds, pears, walnuts, silver ears, and lilies. How to prevent dry and itchy skin and groin itch?
1, drink more water
Drinking more water is the simplest trick to maintain lungs in autumn, and it is also the primary prerequisite to keep the skin lubricated and soft. After entering autumn, people should pay more attention to the regulation of the body and health care, and health care is to lung health as the first. Autumn dry climate, the body will be a lot of water loss, in order to make up for these losses in a timely manner, autumn at least 500 ml more water per day than other seasons, in order to maintain the normal wetness of the lungs and respiratory tract.
2, eat more carrots
Carrots are a kind of crunchy and nutritious vegetable, in the dry season, eat some carrots, and moisten the skin. Carrots are rich in beta-carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A in the small intestine. vitamin A has a protective effect on the epidermis of the skin and can make the skin soft, shiny and elastic, so it is also known as the “beauty vitamin”. A lack of vitamin A in the diet will cause dry skin, keratin metabolism malfunction, and easy to relax and age. Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin, so it is best to eat carrots fried food.
3, “moist” skin juice of pomegranate juice
Whenever autumn, is also the season of pomegranate ripening, with pomegranate juice, drink up sweet and sour, and also “hunger and thirst, to quench the effect of the effect of drunkenness”. In addition to the body has a very good “wet” effect, pomegranate juice is a more effective antioxidant juice than red wine, tomato juice, and the effect is long-lasting.
4, lung moistening eat more black sesame
Black sesame seeds are rich in vitamin E, in the autumn it is the “wet” role of the skin can not be ignored. It has a “moisturizing” effect on the collagen fibers and elastic fibers in the skin, black sesame can also promote blood circulation in the skin, so that it gets sufficient nutrients and water, so that it can achieve the dual effect of softness and luster.
In addition, we are very familiar with pears, walnuts, radish, silver fungus, lily and other autumn tonic food can also be eaten more, they are good helpers to nourish the lungs and moisten the skin.
Prevention of dry and itchy skin in autumn tips.
1, insulation against cold
The temperature is low in late autumn, the exposed parts of the skin such as hands, head, neck and feet are susceptible to freezing, attention should be paid to these parts of the cold insulation, scarves, gloves, cotton shoes to keep warm, you can also rub your hands and ears at any time, avoid wearing wet clothes, shoes and socks.
2, scientific bathing
Bathing should be used sparingly soap, especially the parts prone to itching, and should avoid using soap. Because the soap will remove the oil, making the skin more dry. Some people like to use hot water rinse method to stop itching, but too hot water but easy to make the skin more dry, a moment of comfort may cause longer pain. The number of baths should be 1-2 times a week. After bathing, you can rub some lotion, licorice oil, anti-itch cream, emollient cream, petroleum jelly, etc. to keep the skin moist and prevent the skin surface from drying and peeling off and retaining the moisture. Doctors recommend that the water temperature of the bath to 32 ℃ is appropriate, do not exceed 15 minutes, less bath, do not have to use body wash every day. After the bath, while the skin is still a little wet when the whole body to apply moisturizer, in the hands and feet, knees, joints are coated with a little more oil-based emollient products.
Many people fear that each bath is not clean, especially some women with a cleanliness fetish, bath time is often more than half an hour, individual or even an hour.
Too long washing will certainly wash away more sebum film on the surface of the body, the lack of sebum film protection of the skin will appear dry and flaky, followed by itching.
Be careful not to rub the bath hard.
Many young people like to steam sauna, with strong rubbing bath, until the body is red, in fact, rub down the “mud” is the skin protective film.
This is because with the metabolism of the epidermis will produce continuous shedding of keratinocytes, after being soaked in water, the water content of the stratum corneum increased and became loose, after rubbing hard at this time is often said to be “mud”. And often hot water soaking, scrubbing can lead to excessive shedding of normal keratinocytes and thinning of the sebaceous film, so that the skin barrier protection function is too much damage.
The skin will also be more itchy after the “mud” is rubbed clean. Rubbing too hard is an important cause of itchy skin. Some people with dry skin, especially the elderly after the shower, it is best to apply some moisturizing function of skin moisturizer on the body within 5 minutes, through the external supplement “moisturizing factor” to maintain the moisture of the skin, prevent dry skin flakes, reduce the occurrence of itchy skin.
3, dress should be soft
Usually should avoid wearing woolen clothes directly against the body, it is best to wear a layer of cotton clothes first. Belts should also not be tied too tightly to reduce friction with the skin. Winter wear more clothes, such as not pay attention to wear, more likely to feel itchy skin. This is due to the body and clothes, clothes and clothes between the constant friction generated by static electricity, stimulating the skin. Therefore, winter should be as far as possible to choose cotton, silk and other clothing that is not easy to generate static electricity to do underwear, underwear, shirts, etc.
4, appropriate skin exercise
To reduce the number of times to wash the face to prevent dry skin. Facial skin can be mask, massage, scrub to remove the keratinized exfoliated cells to prevent the roughness of the skin. Usually, you should strengthen the skin exercise to enhance the skin’s adaptability, you can take cold water bath, air bath, sun bath, massage, etc., or insist on cold water face washing and body rubbing.
5, pay attention to sleep and rest, maintain a stable mood
Because lack of sleep, psychological factors can also affect a person’s sensitivity to stimuli, more likely to produce itchy feelings, the more you want to itch, the more itchy scratching, leading to increased symptoms. This is especially true for people suffering from pruritic neurological dysfunctional skin disease. The internal conditioning is also important Oh, we must pay attention to sleep and rest and appropriate psychological stress regulation.
6, to ensure that the indoor environment humidity
Go to work, facing the air conditioning and computer. Especially in the long-term air-conditioned environment, in addition to drinking more water, you can also put a glass of water indoors or use air humidifier to increase indoor humidity, to avoid dry skin due to water loss. In addition, you can also choose to use some high oil content of skin care products, can help reduce the evaporation of moisture on the surface of the skin.
7, autumn eat lily, nourish Yin and lung, protect the skin
Autumn air humidity is small, windy, in such climatic conditions, the human body sweat evaporates quickly, easy to cause a large loss of body moisture, which is the so-called “dry evil injury, easy to hurt the human body fluids”. Lily taste sweet and slightly cold, into the heart, lung meridian, with lung moistening cough, clearing the heart and tranquilizing effect, on the autumn dryness has a better prevention effect. Lily contains leucine, aspartic acid and other 17 kinds of amino acids required by the human body, with high nutritional value, and has the effect of enhancing appetite, aiding digestion, etc. It is rich in inorganic salts and potassium, which play an important role in the body’s metabolism. It is rich in inorganic salts and potassium, which play an important role in the body’s metabolism. It contains a variety of trace elements that have the effect of strengthening the body and improving organ functions. Lily also has a certain effect on the prevention and treatment of many seasonal diseases caused by the dry climate in autumn.
Prevention of dry and itchy skin in autumn is important.
This seasonal change caused by dry itchy skin is most important to focus on prevention, because prevention beforehand is often much more effective than treatment afterwards, that is to say, effective measures should be taken in time to avoid the appearance of skin problems before the symptoms appear. The key to preventing dry itchy skin is to maintain moisturized skin and reduce water and oil loss from the stratum corneum to protect the sebum function. In addition to applying moisturizer on the skin after daily washing, food therapy is also effective.
The intake of vitamins is also important for the prevention and control of itchy skin, especially vitamin A, B2, B6 and so on. When the body lacks vitamin A, the skin will become dry, scaly appear, and even make the skin appear spiny papules, and therefore to eat more vitamin A-rich foods, such as animal liver, carrots, rape, celery, poultry eggs, cod liver oil, etc..
Vitamin B plays a vital role in the metabolic function of the body. Lack of vitamin B will cause metabolic disorders in the body and affect cell function, which will easily lead to dermatitis, acne and other skin problems. Foods containing vitamin B6 include: wheat bran, potatoes, peas, cabbage, beef liver, kidneys, bananas, etc.; foods containing vitamin B2 include: soybeans, yeast, animal liver, shiitake mushrooms, etc.
At the same time, itchy skin patients to avoid spicy, greasy, seafood, coffee, tobacco, alcohol and other stimulating foods, because such foods are a stimulus to the human body and skin, may make the original sufferers of a certain skin disease aggravated. Such as septic skin disease people should eat less sweets, alcohol, etc.; and chili, onion, garlic, wine, strong tea and other foods can lead to poor sleep, emotional instability and many other reactions, these psychological factors will also affect the person’s sensitivity to stimuli, more likely to produce itching, especially may make the symptoms of people suffering from pruritic neurological dysfunctional skin disease aggravated.
Diet should be light, eat less high-fat food, because high-fat food will increase the burden of oil on the skin, especially the pores on the surface of the skin prone to blockage; sugar food should also be eaten less, too much sugar will increase the reproduction of bacteria on the skin, stimulating the skin, causing itchy skin. And fish, shrimp, crab and other seafood products, is the itchy skin “allergens”, it is easy to make the skin around the blood vessels of the release of active substances, intensifying the itching of the skin, should also avoid eating.
Tips: do a good job of preventing itchy skin during the change of season. To pay attention to the “taboo”, for fish, shrimp, wine, chili and other food as far as possible not to eat, so as not to aggravate the disease; in addition, as little as possible to contact items containing chemical ingredients, such as laundry detergent; finally, when the skin itch, do not scratch or boiling water.
The elderly should prevent dry itchy skin to strengthen the skin massage: the elderly should develop a good habit of massaging the skin, especially after entering the dry season, often rub the face, after the bath or before going to bed rub the skin of the whole body, not only can activate the blood Shu meridian, but also increase the elasticity of the skin, help the skin to complete the metabolism, delay the atrophy of the skin subcutaneous tissue and the growth of wrinkles. This can also relieve the elderly of the symptoms of itchy skin in autumn.