TCA SKIN PEELS



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To Moisturize Your Skin

Avoid taking prolonged hot showers. Try to take short lukewarm showers.

Wash cloths remove the natural oils on your skin and render it dry and consequently itchy. Thus avoid wash cloths on the itchy areas.

Baths are less drying to your skin than showers. You may take as long a bath as you wish, but make your showers as short as possible. Aveeno bath powder is a great moisturizing soothing product you can add to your bath water.

Avoid Ivory, deodorant, and antibacterial soaps. Shower with a moisturizing soap like Oil of Olay or Dove. Avoid deliberately applying soap to itchy areas daily. If soapy water runs over these areas that is fine. You may use soap to wash the armpits or similar areas daily as you wish.

The best time to apply a moisturizer is when the skin is soaked wet, mainly up to three minutes after you shower. Thicker moisturizers, such as Cetaphil cream and CeraVe cream, trap water in your skin very efficiently (make sure to get the cream, not the lotion).

If you are prescribed a cortisone ointment, apply it to the affected areas preferably when the skin is soaked wet. As you improve you may apply the cortisone ointment over the moisturizer. The prescribed medicine should only be applied to red inflamed areas.

For extra comfort, you may apply an over the counter anti-itch lotion like Sarna lotion.

Take an anti-histamine like Doxepin or Benadryl before bed.

Adults should also take at least 2000 IU of vitamin D per day.

If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to call us.

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