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You’re not alone if you’re dealing with dry, itchy skin right now. Itching is the single most common winter complaint about skin, says David J. Leffell, MD, a dermatologist and the David P. Smith professor of dermatology and surgery at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. I call it the Doc, I have one more thing. Just as you’re leaving the room, the patient opens up about how itchy and dry their skin is,” he says.
If you’re struggling with chronic dry, itchy skin from a condition such as eczema, you know how much these symptoms can impact your life. “We recently did a study on the overall impact on quality of life in patients suffering from chronic itch and found that the level of quality impairment in these patients is similar to the level of patients who experienced a stroke,” says Shawn Kwatra, MD, dermatologist and assistant professor of dermatology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The research, which was pu