Dry Skin - Skin Problems Message Board

ANNETTE73 · 01-18-2007, 05:28 AM

On the back of my hands my skin is very dry, cracked and bleeding. This happens if I go out in the cold and wind and my gloves are not heavy enough. I called it sprayed. It happens to me every winter. I have tried all the over the counter moisturizer but nothing works. I am thinking about talking to my doctor about it but I don't want to use steriod creams. Is there any thing that works?

Alagaesia · 01-18-2007, 10:32 PM

When your skin actually starts to crack and bleed its time to use something like neosporin. I hope I spelled that right. Once your skin heals then try using aloe vera gel. You can find it in a health store. Or you can try rubbing olive oil on your hands.

jaxjay1308 · 01-19-2007, 04:05 PM

I can totally sympathise with you as my eczema caused exactly the same try using something like epaderm or vaseline I know its horrible gunky stuff but if you put that on it will protect you from cracking. You wont want to put your gloves straight onto the cream as you will ruin your gloves but if you buy some bog standard cotton gloves from a chemist then put them on over the cream but under your gloves. Hope this helps

Amanda06 · 01-21-2007, 10:27 AM

Hi:
I, too have been experiencing a very dry skin, particularly during the winter-time when we need to use 'heater' along with furnace for keep us to warm.

For this problem, I found Emu Oil extremely helpful, although a cost of buying over the internet is NOT cheap. However, I truly am grateful to find the Emu Oil which one of dry-skinned folks on this board suggesting. I apply a tiny amount of Emu Oil in my tiny cosmetic container at handy when I need before going to the bed. Because, a bottle of Emu Oil getting oily and slippery over the time which causes accidently to apply too heavily and too much over the affected areas.

Aside from this, ... I use a vaseline-based moisturizer/hand lotion few times during the day for keeping my hands, particularly a tip of right thumb NOT get cracked due to dry-environment in and out of the house. Prior to this, I used to apply small amount of vaseline with a bandage over it, but the Emu-Oil is much better and cost-consciousness over the time due to its effectiveness and instant healing process in comparison to other dry-skin remedies.