I have been suffering from 1 type diabetes 15 years, and now I am treated with insulin every day, 9 units earlier 12 and 9 units later. Recently, when I was resting at night, my skin was itchy all over. Is this a complication caused by diabetes? How to treat it? What medicine should I take? Inner Mongolia

Wangmou

A: Skin pruritus is a self-conscious symptom, and many diabetic patients have different degrees of skin itching. Skin itching can be systemic or local, especially vulva and anus. Relaxing at night will increase your attention and sensitivity to itching.

There are many factors that lead to itchy skin in diabetes. When the blood sugar control of diabetic patients is not ideal, hyperglycemia in skin blood vessels can directly stimulate the skin to cause itching, which can also be caused by excessive dryness of the skin, and can also be induced by external stimuli such as cold and hot changes and friction between clothes and bedding. You have been suffering from 1 type diabetes for 15 years. I don't know if blood sugar control is ideal. You should insist on monitoring to make your blood sugar reach the standard. Oral antihistamines such as diphenhydramine, chlorpheniramine and cyproheptadine can be used to treat skin itching. The topic can be applied by Pi Yanping and Shufutong. Don't scratch hard when itching occurs, because once caught, it is often difficult to contain it, and scratching the skin may also cause infection and cause adverse consequences. (Department of Endocrinology, Shijiazhuang Second Hospital)

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