When touching yam causes skin allergy and itching, you can directly apply a proper amount of white vinegar to the itchy part, because some alkaline components will cause human skin allergy, and acid-base neutralization will occur after applying white vinegar, which can relieve the symptoms of human skin itching as soon as possible. You can also apply essential balm to itchy places, because essential balm has obvious refreshing feeling and obvious antipruritic effect. However, you can clean the allergic skin with clean water, and then apply wind oil to the itchy part, so that the itching symptoms can be alleviated in the future.

Some people's fingers itch after washing yam, which is mainly caused by allergic reaction after hand skin contacts yam mucus. Saponins contained in yam skin or alkaloids contained in mucus can irritate the skin and cause skin allergic symptoms, which belongs to contact dermatitis. The most common symptom of patients is itchy fingers, and in severe cases, symptoms such as redness and tingling will appear.

How to contact yam to avoid allergies;

1 Put on gloves

The cause of contact dermatitis or allergy is that people come into contact with yam skin or mucus in yam with their bare hands. Wearing gloves when peeling and cutting yam can effectively avoid this situation, which can be special plastic gloves for kitchen or disposable plastic gloves, which is the most convenient.

2. Steamed yam.

There is another way to avoid the allergy caused by yam, that is, put yam in a steamer for seven or eight minutes, and the allergens in yam skin will be destroyed, so that people will not have one's fingers itch. After steaming the yam, the yam skin is particularly easy to handle, and it will come after a little scraping.