Now, if you’ll excuse me, it’s time for a hot shower and Benadryl cocktail.Īndrew Lind is a staff writer at The Tidewater News. Never again will I spend all day in the sun without an arsenal of all the SPF products in the world.Īnd what do you know… recalling the tremors from the night before have brought back the itch.
Even the prospect of a perfectly bronzed body is not worth the excruciating pain I’ve had to deal with. But then again, as the clock now neared midnight, I was out of any other ideas.īegrudgingly, I turned my bathroom into a sauna and took the hottest shower of my life… but it worked! Within a half hour - thanks to the medicine - I was sleeping like a baby. The latter, on the other hand, seemed counterintuitive. The medicine made sense, so I rushed to CVS and drank half a bottle of the tasty children’s medicine before I left the parking lot. Ultimately, one author suggested taking Benadryl and standing underneath a boiling hot shower. Like a hundred thousand hectic, angry ants crawling on my skin, in my muscles, in my bones the itch was DEEP in my body, beyond where any relief was possible. He estimates that “Hell’s itch” strikes 5 to 10 percent of sunburn sufferers, and I was one of those unlucky few. The itching was the most intensely uncomfortable experience of my life. “It’s a completely debilitating condition, largely unknown to medical science.” Though there is very little research on hell's itch, it could be caused by certain chemicals related to itching and pain that the body releases during a sunburn.
Martin Steinhoff, one of the world’s leading sunburn researchers from University College of Dublin, Ireland, told the newspaper. Triggers can include certain foods, medications.
CAUSES OF HELLS ITCH SKIN
“For upward of two days, the patients are completely consumed by the itch, unable to work or think straight,” Dr. It causes inflammation and fluid to accumulate under the skin, giving the skin a red, raised, itchy rash. As a former Marine, I am embarrassed that this causes me so much utter agony, I just want to go insane.”Īn article in The National Post referred to the sensation as “Hell’s itch.” Another lamented, “It’s a maddening, body-twitching, hands-shaking, insatiable itch that literally had me in tears.
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