E45 Moisturising Lotion 200ml

If you have dry or sensitive skin, use E45 Moisturising Lotion 200ml. It is long-lasting care for dry and sensitive skin. E45 Lotion is light, unperfumed and can be used all over your body, face and hands to give long-lasting care for dry and sensitive skin. Suitable for daily use. Dermatologically tested.  E45 Cream can be used every day by the whole family, including babies over the age of 3 months. Suitable to use in all skin areas such as body, hands and face. Do not use if allergic to any of the ingredients.

Eczema

Eczema is a well-known dry, inflammatory skin condition. Although it is mainly seen as a problem in children, it can affect people of all ages. You may find that, even if you have ‘grown out’ of childhood eczema, it can come back when you are an adult. Although the exact cause of eczema is not known, your genetics play a role, so you may find it runs in your family.

What you might not realise is there are many different types of eczema that can affect different body parts. The good news is that eczema is not contagious, but you may have times when it is worse than others – this is known as a flare-up.

If you have eczema, your skin is different to the skin in healthy people. It may not produce as much fats and oils, which makes it harder to trap moisture in your skin. This weakens your skin barrier leading to dry, irritated, cracked skin. Eczema skin is more prone to irritation and allergic reactions, making your skin red and inflamed.

Eczema can be itchy, making you scratch – and further damaging your skin in the process. This itch-scratch cycle can then continue to make your eczema worse.

Itchy skin

When we get an itch, it’s human nature to scratch it. But for some people, itching – known medically as pruritus – can be a big problem. There are many causes of itchiness, from dry skin to pregnancy to conditions such as eczema. Significantly itchy skin is common, affecting around 8-9% of people in any two week period.

Symptoms associated with itchy skin

Most of us can manage to keep our itching under control, but for others it can set up something called the itch-scratch cycle. Your skin feels itchy, so you scratch to relieve the itch, but this makes the skin feel irritated and itchy, so you scratch again. All this scratching then damages your skin barrier, leading to the following conditions:

• Red skin
• Bleeding skin
• Thickened skin
• Broken skin
• Skin infections (getting in through broken skin)