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Excessive Dry Skin Excessive dry skin is a problem that can affect people from all walks of life and from various parts of the world. What happens is that the skin reacts to a variety of reasons and becomes very dry. If you have healthy skin you may have noticed that your skin looks supple. For people with a skin problem the skin shows signs of having very little moisture. Usually the changes in the weather can be blamed for the drying out of the skin. People usually find that during the winter months their skin dries out. In some cases the excessive heat of summer has this effect on the skin.
One of the first symptoms of dry skin is that cracks appear on the surface. The skin also sports faint lines that resemble cracks in dry earth. In some cases this can become worse if it is not treated immediately. In extreme cases the dry skin becomes so bad that it leads to intense itching. People with excessive dry skin feel as if their skin is being stretched. This makes it itch and when they give in to the impulse and scratch they end up harming themselves. Constant scratching not only leaves marks on the dry skin, in some cases this also results in the breaking of the skin, leading to bleeding.
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