Most patients who suffer from burn injuries usually experience itching at some point during the healing process. Itching is one of the most problematic and distressing issues that the patient’s experience. It can vary in severity from one patient to the other and it can be severe that it interferes with sleeping, eating, moving and quality of life.
Itching usually starts during the healing process. It is usually worse at night, probably due to decreased movement and pain. It is increased with anything that increases the temperature of the body, for example activity on hot weather (because of the increase of histamine release which is one of the mediators for itching).
Itching can be decreased by: