Possible causes of itchy skin after plastering include poor breathability, skin allergy, etc., which can be improved by strengthening nursing care and medication.
1. Poor air permeability: Because plaster has the characteristics of poor air permeability and inconvenient to clean, local skin sweating may lead to skin itching after playing plaster. If the symptoms are mild and tolerable, no special treatment can be done; if the itching is serious, the doctor can remove the plaster, apply hot compresses, clean it and other treatments to help relieve the itching symptoms, and then re-use the plaster to fix the affected limbs.
2. Skin allergy: plaster has certain irritation to the skin, and some patients may have skin allergy, which may cause itching, pain, oozing and other symptoms. With the help of doctor, hydrocortisone butyrate ointment can be used externally to improve the allergic symptoms; in serious cases, antihistamine drugs such as loratadine can be taken orally.
If the local skin is broken or infected, the affected area should be sterilized, and then cast or splinted again according to the condition of the allergic area.
It should be noted that the above treatment should be carried out under the guidance of physicians to avoid adverse reactions.