Spent the weekend at a friends house where the heat was on and it was incredibly dry causing my swim to become incredibly dry. Got back into town yesterday and swam in gym’s pool. Since then my skin has been itching uncontrollably. I am miserable at work today. Any idea if this is from the chlorine on my dry skin or something more serious may be going on? Have been using same lotions and other products that I always use.
I have this issue all winter long. The itching is most likely from a reaction to the chlorine aggravating the dry skin. Regular skin lotion from the drugstore usually clears it in a day or two but I’ve gotten the most relief from vaseline intensive care total moisture in the tan and blue bottle.
assuming you already checked for tiny crawly critters…it might not be the chlorine but something else in the water or just an odd combination.
i’ve had that similar sensation on occasion and in every case it was just a situation of a combination of soap/chemicals/water that was out of the ordinary and after a day or so everything settled down. doesn’t help that in between something’s not right feeling though.