Sentence examples for relieve itching from inspiring English sources

Special creams and lotions that contain anti-inflammatory compounds may be used to soften and soothe the skin, and topical corticosteroids may be applied to the skin to relieve itching.

Mash plantain leaves and apply to affected skin, changing leaves every hour, to relieve itching.

Take Benadryl to help relieve itching.

This can work like a charm to relieve itching.

OTC hydrocortisone has small amounts of steroids (1% of the entire solution) that helps relieve itching.

Vinegar: White vinegar or apple cider vinegar can help relieve itching, burning and inflammation.

Just as scratching, a form of pain, relieves itching, studies find that "noxious" stimuli — heat or electric shocks — can do the same.

In most cases (45%) no treatment relieved itching.

The fact that opioid antagonist drugs relieve itch that nothing else helps has suggested to scientists that in some patients itch may be caused at least in part by too many natural opioid molecules circulating in the brain.

The findings provide "a candidate target for future therapies that relieve itch without minimizing the capacity for pain," says Robert LaMotte, a neuroscientist at Yale University.

"It's an excellent study and provides a new molecular target... that may be exploited to relieve itch," says Earl Carstens, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Davis.