Severe itching after showering

sounds like worms

Aquagenic pruritis is hard to cope with and the cause can be equally elusive. My doctors did take the condition seriously. First, a dermatologist had me change to hypoallergenic products. When that did not help, I was sent to a dermatologist who specializes in environmental allergies. When extensive patch testing ruled out allergy as a source, I had further work up for other conditions since I had additional symptoms. The final diagnosis is autonomic dysfunction. If someone is experiencing the itch from a problem of going from the hot bath to cold air, then keeping the temperature steady can help tremendously. Now I dry my hair and body immediately with a hot hair dryer. The itching is gone. I hope if anyone has aquagenic pruritis from this cause that this method will help.

Have you tried organic apple cider vinegar and wster rinse for dandruff

Yes...I mentioned this same thing here once or twice. For me, it is largely about going from one temperature to another. I take a warm shower, make sure the room is warm, dry off immediately and get into a bathrobe. I use the blow dryer if needed. All this helps tremendously.

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.

Totally agree, have had this on and off for over 30 years, temperature control helps..my body doesn't like tepid water and at the end of every shower I scorch my skin with hot water, dry off quickly without vigorous rubbing and it does help. Sweating is not the culprit, but as the skin dries off it's unbearable specially with any change of temperature like into air conditioning. Can't do the body scrubs that exfoliate a layer of skin either, this sets me off with uncontrable itching pins and needles.

When I got out the shower for the first time behind my legs started to burn

I also only suffer ‘the itch’ in late Summer / Early Autumn. It doesn’t seem to depend on humidity (have tested this by checking the humidity at different times I’ve been itching. It seems that light sweating (almost imperceptible) before a shower can cause it, but heavier sweating at the gym or running etc won’t. It’s mostly in the morning (though definitely not the rule). The only way I’ve learned to avoid it is to let myself drip-dry, rather than using a towel - not so handy if you’re in a rush. Heat and sunshine help relieve it, slapping just seems to help release my frustration/pain!

I honestly thought I was the only person that suffered from this itchy annoying habit. Once I get out the shower, cold or hot my lower legs, ankles and feet itch. I drink loads of water everyday day between 2.5 to 3liters. I have a good clean daily diet. I’m 23 now and this has been a problem since I was a teen. I’ve tried different lotions, shea butter etc. The persistent itch always comes. I try to put loads of lotion on my entire body as soon as I come out of the shower.
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.

I had the same issue on and off for a while, the itching was so bad that I would scream into a pillow. I figured out that I was allergic to the detergent I was using. I switched to no sent and sensitive skin. I was using a hypoallergenic fragrance prior but it was causing itch as well. I hope this helps.

OMG i have suffered from this for 4 moths - it’s never caused by a hot shower but it appears after a hot shower ie it itches all day around but redness only shows post showering. Cold showers have helped me in newly affected areas ( I started feeling it coming in my chest, applied cold water, and gone the next day) this is however not the case in the mainly affected areas ( neck, head) but haven’t tried enough probably. I do have herpes, can you guys mention if guy have it too by any chance? Might be food related too but want to start removing things of the list...

I also find that Aqueous calamine cream helps with the irritation after the shower

I feel like I'm washing in acid. The burning and itching as soo as I step out of the shower is so bad. Simple petroleum jelly immediately after drying completely calms it down. I hope it held you all as well as it helps me. And it is very cost effective. Good luck!! I feel your pain.

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.

It could be just the water. Look up aquagenic prurirty

Idiopathic aquagenic purirty