The possible causes of dry skin flaking in summer are dry skin, excessive sun exposure, ichthyosis, etc., which can be improved through enhanced care, medication and other help. 1. Dry skin: summer climate is hotter, when the patient is in the air-conditioned room for a long time in a dry environment, it may lead to dry skin, and in severe cases, the phenomenon of peeling will occur, such patients should pay attention to strengthen the skin local moisturizing work, such as avoiding the use of scalding hot water in the bath, applying body lotion, and using a humidifier and so on. 2. Excessive sun exposure: summer ultraviolet rays are more intense, when the patient is in the outdoors for a long time and do not do a good job of sunscreen measures may lead to sunburn, thus causing the body skin dryness, redness, peeling and other symptoms, such patients can use glycerine lotion, dexamethasone cream and other drugs for localized application to help improve the symptoms, and then pay attention to strengthen the sun protection. 3. ichthyosis: ichthyosis is a genetic correlation of skin keratinization abnormality disease, mainly manifested as dry skin, flaky ichthyosiform flaking and other symptoms, especially in the calves, trunk and other parts of the body, summer is generally more mild than the winter, such patients can be applied locally to the urea cream, Vitamin A cream and other creams to help the treatment of the serious need to take oral vitamin A and other drugs. It should be noted that the above medication should be carried out under the guidance of a physician to avoid the occurrence of adverse reactions. When the summer body skin dry skin symptoms should be timely to the hospital to identify the cause, follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment.