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O'Keefe's hand cream is the best! My suggestion is cream your hands at night before bed, and put on white cotton gloves. You can get them at any drug store like CVS. Also where gloves when washing dishes.
In addition, run a cool mist vaporizer in your bedroom at night, and turn the heat down. You want to keep the humidity in your home as high as possible, and especially in your bedroom at night. Bet this doesn't happen to you in the summer, unless you live in a desert climate.
Try not to get your hands dirty, and wash them only when they get dirty. I know that we're taught to wash our hands all day long, probably over ten times a day, if you do it before every time you eat and every time you set foot in the bathroom. But the reality is, all that washing strips the protective oil out of your skin, and the open cracks on your hands are a far worse infectious disease risk than just about anything else you could do with your hands.
Just an update on me: I saw the derm. today - she says I should start on the ointment my primary prescribed (I'd been hesitant and didn't because it says don't use on broken skin plus it's a steroid) - she also took cultures of my hands because she things there may be some staph going on because of the broken skin (results take a week or so). Meantime, I'm to start on the prescrip. and continue what I've been doing which is: petroleum jelly, gloves - unscented lotion, etc.
Just an update on me: I saw the derm. today - she says I should start on the ointment my primary prescribed (I'd been hesitant and didn't because it says don't use on broken skin plus it's a steroid) - she also took cultures of my hands because she things there may be some staph going on because of the broken skin (results take a week or so). Meantime, I'm to start on the prescrip. and continue what I've been doing which is: petroleum jelly, gloves - unscented lotion, etc.
Thanks for the update. Hope your dermo and primary have it figured out for you.
I dry skin is the issue, pee on your hands. The most effective dry-hands lotion contains urea. It worked for me when I had to handle a lot of paper in heated buildings in winter.
I dry skin is the issue, pee on your hands. The most effective dry-hands lotion contains urea. It worked for me when I had to handle a lot of paper in heated buildings in winter.
I have not found a cream for dry skin better than Premium Triple Cream (not the paste) made by Summers Laboratories. Not cheap and not available everywhere. Works like nothing else I've ever used.
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