Itchy hands after cutting yams can be treated by stopping contact, washing hands, and medication. 1. Stop contact: The mucus on the yam contains plant bases, so it will irritate the skin and cause itching. The patient needs to stop touching the yam to prevent the itching symptoms from getting worse, and can cut the yam by wearing gloves. 2. Wash your hands: after cutting yam itchy hands, patients need to use water to wash their hands as soon as possible, repeated rinsing of their hands, the residual mucus on the skin as soon as possible to clean. 3. medication: if the patient itching is more serious, you can take anti-allergy drugs, such as loratadine, cetirizine, etc., while with the glycerine lotion to relieve the symptoms. Cut yam hand itching if accompanied by serious discomfort, should be timely medical care, if the use of drugs need to follow the doctor’s instructions, not to be used indiscriminately, so as not to lead to adverse consequences.