老人性乾皮症,皮膚そう痒症,皮脂欠乏性湿疹

How we can treat “itch”? That is a very important subject when we examine old patients. Especially in a dry season, “skin dryness” accelerates “itch”, and then the patients who suffer from senile pruritus and asteatotic eczema owing to dry skin (senile xerosis) considerably increase. In this paper, we describe the etiology, the crinical appearanses, the treatments, and the suggestions of daily life of their diseases. We emphasize that the each stage of the senile xerotic diseases individually needs the appropreate skin care and treatments, and that the patients can prevent the diseases from advancing if they alter the habits of daily life.