Itchy skin caused by yams can be treated by cold water rinsing, soap washing and medication for relief.
1. Cold water rinse: yams contain alkaloids that can irritate the skin, when handling yams, if the yam juice splashes on the skin may stimulate the sensory nerves, resulting in itching symptoms. Timely rinsing with cold water is a more effective method, cold water can make blood vessels constriction, reduce the absorption of alkaloids in the skin, at the same time, cold stimulation can also play a soothing effect on the nerves.
2. Soap cleaning: you can also use soap to wash the itchy parts of the skin, soap usually contains components that can break down alkaloids, can effectively reduce the alkaloid stimulation of the skin, thus playing a rapid improvement in the role of itching symptoms.
3. medication: some sensitive patients, in the stimulation may produce severe allergic dermatitis, induced by the whole body large-scale itching, you can follow the doctor’s instructions for external use of hormone ointment, such as mometasone furoate cream, compound dexamethasone cream, etc., oral antihistamine drugs, such as loratadine tablets, cetirizine hydrochloride tablets and other medications for treatment.
If the patient has severe or persistent itchy skin symptoms, he should go to the hospital for treatment in time to avoid delaying the condition.