Knock on wood, this problem has been better all around for me. I have reduced eating gluten and sugar. I’m very unsure if this has helped...but maybe.
But I’m absolutely certain keeping the bathroom warm, etc. keeping the temps as steady as possible is very very helpful.
I really wish the was a specific condition and treatment to this itch. I’m really fed up of it. I do think it could be a skin or nerve issue. I have no idea, I just itch it out.
For me, I discovered last year that my scalp itches extremely bad after a shower - but, only if I rigorously dry my hair. I discovered it does not itch on the sides. I have been using essential oil for my hair, but also it is worth noting that it only itches where I DID NOT use the essential oil.
This might mean that if I used that essential oil on my whole head it might solve it. I think I might try that.
The sides of my head which I don't use essential oil and which doesn't itch even if rubbing hard - it only itches on top of my head and toward the back.
If I just pat the top of my head with the towel, all is fine.
But if I rub it with the towel to dry it, the severe itch that makes me want to scream happens about 15 to 30 seconds after rubbing my head dry. I can barely resist it I hold my hand on my head and use some pressure, and the itching does go away after about a minute or so.
So I learned don't run the towel on top! Sometimes I make a mistake and it occurs. Once it occurs it make me want to scream or itch it.
Now, I know that even though in this case, the essential oil actually probably helped (what I put on my head I am also using a carrier oil); in the past certain essential oil has caused severe itching on my skin - when I used Tea Tree Oil (undiluted) daily for several weeks to get rid of a skin fungus on my arm. (It worked!). But it caused severe itching as long as I continued using it -
I think I had developed a skin sensitivity, so I had to discontinue use - I could stop the itching either by scratching which made worse or by running it under scalding hot water - of course, not too hot to burn me but as hot as the faucet would go. Painful for a moment but immediately itch was gone.
For the head however, that makes no sense. I am sure it would work to use hot water to stop the itch, but the point is I got out of the shower and wanted my hair dry. Running water over it would put me right back where I started. I suppose I could use a blow dryer but that damages hair.
I would be interested to do an experiment in which in the middle of the day I rub my head with a towel and see if itching occurs. Then, I could know if it had anything at all to do with the shower.
By the way, I use a completely natural hair shampoo. So, that is not the problem in my case. And, I do not have dandruff or any skin conditions (besides the temporary itching on my of my head after the shower when I rub with a towel).
Anyway I wanted to share my own experiences with itchy scalp to maybe help others. I might try to use the essential oil all over my head to see if it stops the itching problem.
I am also considering using apple cider vinegar to see if that helps. ACV does kill nail fungus by the way - but you have to be disciplined to use it daily and soak for at least 30 seconds per day in organic apple cider vinegar. If you use more often it may work more quickly, but it can take months or years of daily treatment to eliminate nail fungus.
Skin fungus can be killed by a combination of sunlight (to a tan), apple cider vinegar, and tea tree oil. Other essential oils might also work but I haven't tried due to not needing it since I already cured it. Tea tree oil can cause skin sensitivity and skin itching relieved by hot water especially without a carrier oil, but surely is more effective against fungus when used in small amounts undiluted, but only use undiluted at your own risk. To get rid of nail fungus, you also need to throw away all your socks, as well as buy new socks occasionally, as well as new shoes. The expense of new shoes and socks could be worth it especially after spending a full year of daily ACV soaks to get rid of it since the big toenail takes a long time to grow all the way out.
One day a few years ago a weird nodule showed up on the bottom of my foot. I think it was fungus. Maybe the toenail fungus had spread to my foot or I stepped on a fungus nail cutting. Who knows. My daily ACV soaks accidentally cured that and it is completely gone. I think it took a couple months for that to cure.
The skin fungus cured with sunlight, and tea tree oil and and ACV (applied with qtips), was on my arm. I added sunlight because I think that had a certainly positive effect. I used to go out and mow the lawn sleeveless, I think it helped. It was strange little discolorations but was spreading as more showed up, about ten or fifteen 1/8" spots. I am nearly certain it was fungal. I had a bad deep cut a couple years before which needed stitches (but I used superglue instead, it worked and virtually no scar now, I think ACV to treat the fungus actually improve the scar too), and then a weird little nodule showed up in the middle of the healed scar, causing it to bubble up in the middle. At first I thought it was part of the scar, but now since it is perfectly level and no bump, I know it was the fungus. I think that may have been the entry point into my arm, which began spreading to about 10 or 15 spots moving up my arm. I cured that in a couple months with the above solution of ACV, tea tree, and sunlight. I had to break the skin by rubbing it hard with the qtip dipped in ACV. Before, I had just applied it topically, but I found it had far greater results by slightly breaking the skin with the ACV (not enough to bleed) and then putting a band aid and triple antibiotic over them for a couple days to protect from infection. I went through a lot of band aids but it was worth it. It was red for awhile but by 6 months later the redness had entirely disappeared and today my skin is perfect as if there was never any infection. Zero scarring from that. Don't rub *too* hard - just enough to irritate the skin with the qtip dipped in ACV. Basically, I think I had to access the fungus directly beneath the surface my skin to soak it with the ACV. When I did that, I had it cured within a couple months. Prayer might also have helped since I also prayed that God would cure it. Well, it is cured. So, don't forget prayer if you are a believer.
Back to the scalp, interestingly, the problem began when I moved away from southern california, in which cause also hair loss began. I mostly stopped the hair loss and was able to recover some of it, but around the same time, the itching after the shower began. I am a male age 30 in pretty good health.
I hope this helps some people.