Doctors in the house, help is urgently needed for one of my friends. Anytime he has a bath, his body itches BADLY. He told me about two weeks ago, i just told him to change his bathing soap. He said he had done this several times, but no show, my friend is now always afraid to have a bath, i spent the night @ his place and this morning after his bath,see itching . It was so severe, and lasted about 15 to 20 mins. i really pitied him. What can he do?
I also told him i thought it was genetical, but he said none of his family members had ever complained before. PLEASE HELP

@Poster ask your friend to go to the hospital for proper check up and treatment.

how hot is his bathing water

Has he changed his towel?because when towels are not spread in the sun after bath,they remain damp and thereby cause itching.

@sissy, he uses cold water, the itching gets worse when he uses hot water.
@chyket, i forgot to add dat he has changed towels more than ten times, still same story.

I join the 'see a doctor' chorus.
Also, it wouldn't be a bad idea to get that water analised!

If the problem does not come from dirty water or towel or any other physical irritant, then your friend probably has a condition known as 'Aquagenic Pruritis'.
This is simply a genetic and inherited condition that causes him to be 'allergic' to moisture on his skin.
It is indeed a pitiful condition as even sweating can lead to skin irritation.
Tell your friend to get to a doctor that would prescribe appropriate drugs for him, maybe an antihistamine like Loratidine. That should drastically reduce the itching.
Best of luck.

I suffer same thing b4! tell your friend to Stop using water that has been stored for too long. I noticed that it occurs to me most times when i bathed with water that has been stored for too long in Drums.
does he or she stored water in metal drums or is there dirt at the bottom of the drum. those also causes the itching.

Tell ur friend not to bathe with sponge. I used to have d same problem but it stopped when i stopped using sponge almost fifteen years ago

U can also add dettol or savlon to the water. It works!

tanx for ur replies guys, i appreciate all comments.
I think i'll advice him not to use sponge, see if that works. it seems dats the only available option left, and also c a doctor

@poster..... it happens to me too. tell you friend to swap his sponge for a soft towel for bathing, use mild soap and disinfect his water.. spread his towel and d face towel he uses on a daily basis.it works.... if symptoms persists then he shld see a dermatologist not just any doctor

^^^ nice idea. I neva really thought of using a soft towel

Havilah93: tanx for ur replies guys, i appreciate all comments.
I think i'll advice him not to use sponge, see if that works. it seems dats the only available option left, and also c a doctor

Stoping the sponge for a few months will help reduce it greatly. It will still flare up, but it shoud not be an everyday thing anymore.

When last did he treat malaria? It use to happen to me once in a long while when I prove stuborn to malaria especially during rainy season when I hardly sweat. One more advice, when the itching starts he should not scratch his skin; he should endure itching 4 some 2nds or minutes without touching his skin. He would be surprised, the itching will fade off. It would be hard to endure but it works like magic. Above all he should test for typhoid fever, jaundice or herpatitis.

@ all, thanks for every comment.

jaytime: When last did he treat malaria? It use to happen to me once in a long while when I prove stuborn to malaria especially during rainy season when I hardly sweat. One more advice, when the itching starts he should not scratch his skin; he should endure itching 4 some 2nds or minutes without touching his skin. He would be surprised, the itching will fade off. It would be hard to endure but it works like magic. Above all he should test for typhoid fever, jaundice or herpatitis.

the malaria itching is kind of diffrent, sometimes i even have itches when i have malaria and i use chloroquine, but my friend's itching is not malaria -induced. About him not scratching his skin, mehn, dat will be a tough one. I dont think he can hold it for up to 10 secs when it starts, cos its really bad

Ur friend has syphilis infection and it was hereditary, let him go to the doctor to treat him, he should repeat the treatment every six months until he gets better.

Does he bath with the sponge, if so, how often? Tell your from not to use his sponge for bathing and see what is going to happen. cheers.

[color=#006600][/color]Wow thanks so much 4 ur advice cus intching is driving me crazy right now that's y I long on to get help as I can't get envoronmental help around me tnx let me stop using sponge

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I had this same issue before...stop using sponge, bath with warm water nd stick to good soap...always make sure yourr towel is dry and clean..

I ised to suffer the same issue while i was a teenager. The itching gets so intense that sometimes i felt like killing myself then. There is little or nothing the doctors could do when i complained to them. They just prescribe a drug for u to ake but none works. First i observed that when i skip my evening bath time or morning bath time in a day then i take my bath i felt severe itching. I then stopped skipping my bath time and also stopped bathing with sponge. It just stopped magically on ots own. Thats how i became free from that plight.

it is neither the water nor soap nor germs, it is a kind of condition and it is also hereditary(iit got passed down to me from my mother). i also suffer severely from it too. it is so bad that it lasts for up to 30mins after bath. the solution is to stop using sponge, use only soap and water to bath. . also avoid change of soap or change of type of water(like from bore hole to tap water). use of disinfectant is absolutely a waste of time.

Why suffer in silence while there is now a real solution?

Hi, guys,this case is best experience than read somewhere. I believe if there are those who should profer solution to itching after bath are those who have experienced it.I started noticing itching after bath when I relocated to a new house where the water is bole hole.
I used Izal, and change of the water it worked like magic.So the cause could be dirty water. I advice change of water and application of original dis-fectants.